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Deputies save 9-year-old by pulling him through the window of a burning home
By Katie Sivco
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HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Florida (WESH) — Two Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputies saved a child’s life on Thursday night after pulling him through the window of a burning home.
It was about 10:45 p.m. when deputies responded to a house fire in Seffner, Florida. A child’s screams could be heard inside the home which was fully enveloped in flames.
Footage from body cameras shows Deputy Kevin Reich and Deputy Alexander Maldonado working for more than four minutes to rescue a boy named Owen, breaking two bedroom windows and attempting to coax him out by using their flashlights as smoke pours from the house.
Paramedics came and performed treatment on the boy until he was taken to the hospital, along with his mother and a homeowner.
The child sustained severe burns and endured smoke inhalation. He is still in the hospital in serious condition, according to a news release.
The deputies were not hurt in the rescue and fire crews safely extinguished the house fire.
“These deputies never hesitated,” Sheriff Chad Chronister said. “They are true examples of what it means to be a hero.”
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US to issue ID to migrants awaiting deportation proceedings
(AP) - U.S. immigration authorities are planning to issue photo ID cards to immigrants in deportation proceedings in a bid to slash paper use and help people stay up-to-date on required meetings and court hearings, officials said.
The proposal from Immigration and Customs Enforcement is still being developed as a pilot program, and it was not immediately clear how many the agency would issue. The cards would not be an official form of federal identification, and would state they are to be used by the Department of Homeland Security.
The idea is for immigrants to be able to access information about their cases online by using a card rather than paper documents that are cumbersome and can fade over time, officials said. They said ICE officers could also run checks on the cards in the field.
“Moving to a secure card will save the agency millions, free up resources, and ensure information is quickly accessible to DHS officials while reducing the agency’s FOIA backlog,” an ICE spokesperson said in a statement, referring to unfulfilled public requests for agency documents. Homeland Security gets more Freedom of Information Act requests than any other federal agency, according to government data, and many of those involve immigration records.
The proposal has sparked a flurry of questions about what the card might be used for and how secure it would be. Some fear the program could lead to tracking of immigrants awaiting their day in immigration court, while others suggest the cards could advertised by migrant smugglers to try to induce others to make the dangerous trip north.
The Biden administration is seeking $10 million for the so-called ICE Secure Docket Card in a budget proposal for the next fiscal year. It was not immediately clear if the money would cover the pilot or a broader program or when it would begin.
The administration has faced pressure as the number of migrants seeking to enter the country on the southwest border has increased. Border Patrol agents stopped migrants more than 1.1 million times from January to June, up nearly one-third from the same period of an already-high 2021.
Many migrants are turned away under COVID-19-related restrictions. But many are allowed in and either are detained while their cases churn through the immigration courts or are released and required to check in periodically with ICE officers until a judge rules on their cases.
Those most likely to be released in the United States are from countries where expulsion under the public health order is complicated due to costs, logistics or strained diplomatic relations, including Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
At shelters, bus stations and airports along the U.S.-Mexico border, migrants carefully guard their papers in plastic folders. These are often the only documents they have to get past airport checkpoints to their final destinations in the United States. The often dog-eared papers can be critical to getting around.
An immigration case can take years and the system can be confusing, especially for immigrants who know little English and may need to work with an array of government agencies, including ICE and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which issues work permits and green cards. U.S. immigration courts are overseen by the Justice Department.
Gregory Z. Chen, senior director of government relations at the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said migrants have mistakenly gone to ICE offices instead of court for scheduled hearings that they then missed as a result. He said so long as immigrants’ privacy is protected, the card could be helpful.
“If ICE is going to be using this new technology to enable non citizens to check in with ICE, or to report information about their location and address, and then to receive information about their case — where their court hearings might be, what the requirements might be for them to comply with the law — that would be a welcome approach,” Chen said.
It was not clear whether Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration would accept the cards for airport travel or whether private businesses would consider it valid.
The United States doesn’t have a national photo identification card. Residents instead use a range of cards to prove identification, including driver’s licenses, state ID cards and consular ID cards. What constitutes a valid ID is often determined by the entity seeking to verify a person’s identity.
Talia Inlender, deputy director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at University of California, Los Angeles’ law school, said she was skeptical that using a card to access electronic documents would simplify the process for immigrants, especially those navigating the system without a lawyer, and questioned whether the card has technology that could be used to increase government surveillance of migrants.
But having an ID could be useful, especially for migrants who need to travel within the U.S., Inlender said.
“Many people are fleeing persecution and torture in their countries. They’re not showing up with government paperwork,” Inlender said. “Having a form of identification to be able to move throughout daily life has the potential to be a helpful thing.”
That has some Republican lawmakers concerned that the cards could induce more migrants to come to the U.S. or seek to access benefits they’re not eligible for. A group of 16 lawmakers sent a letter last week to ICE raising questions about the plan.
“The Administration is now reportedly planning yet another reckless policy that will further exacerbate this ongoing crisis,” the letter said.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana has dropped its case against a Black man whose severe beating before his arrest in 2019 led to criminal charges and lawsuits against a state trooper.
A traffic violation and charges of resisting an officer had been hanging over Aaron Bowman for two years. Court documents show the Louisiana Attorney General’s office moved to dismiss the charges against Bowman on Monday, citing “insufficient evidence to support prosecution” and “credibility issues” with the officers who arrested him.
Former state trooper Jacob Brown faces a federal charge of violating Bowman’s civil rights in connection with the beating in May 2019. He has pleaded not guilty. A trial date of March 20 was set Tuesday.
The federal indictment accuses Brown of beating Bowman with a flashlight that had a “tactical cap” designed to break glass.
Video and police records show Bowman was struck 18 times with a flashlight in 24 seconds. Records show it happened when he pulled into the driveway of his home in Monroe after police tried to pull him over for improper lane usage. He was not immediately taken into custody after the beating, but was arrested on a warrant issued a few days later.
The Attorney General’s Office took over prosecution of the charges against Bowman after his attorneys asked a court to recuse the local prosecutor, 4th Judicial District Attorney Robert Tew.
Bowman is suing state police and multiple Ouachita Parish agencies in civil court.
In the federal criminal case, Brown is charged with “deprivation of rights under color of law.”
Bowman’s case came to light as scrutiny of the Louisiana State Police intensified amid allegations of use of excessive force and racism.
The U.S. Justice Department last month announced a sweeping civil rights investigation of the agency amid mounting evidence of a pattern of looking away from beatings of mostly Black men, including the 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, who died in custody after being beaten following a chase.
The announcement followed an Associated Press investigation that found at least a dozen cases over the past decade in which state police troopers or their bosses ignored or concealed evidence of beatings, deflected blame and impeded efforts to root out misconduct. Dozens of current and former troopers said the beatings were countenanced by a culture of impunity, nepotism and, in some cases, outright racism. | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/beating-victim-cleared-as-louisiana-trooper-awaits-trial/ | 2022-07-29T02:45:23Z |
A new study finds patients with cancer who smoke are more likely to receive evidence-based cessation assistance by using the ELEVATE program, increasing the likelihood of better outcomes.
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New research in the May 2022 issue of JNCCN—Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network finds the inclusion of the smoking cessation tool Electronic Health Record-Enabled Evidence-Based Smoking Cessation Treatment (ELEVATE, from Epic) into electronic health records (EHRs) can increase self-reported patient quit rates by more than 5 percentage points. The study, from researchers at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine—an NCCN Member Institution—was part of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Moonshot program through the Cancer Center Cessation Initiative.
Active smoking after a cancer diagnosis is associated with worse outcomes, lower survival rates, higher risk of additional cancers, and more frequent and severe side-effects from cancer treatment. The oncology community agrees that it is never too late to stop smoking. However, far too many patients are not receiving adequate counseling and support according to evidence-based smoking cessation guidelines.
"ELEVATE seems to be emerging as a relatively rare example of a program that enables access to high-quality smoking cessation care while minimizing costs and burden," said lead researcher, Alex T. Ramsey, PhD, a Washington University researcher at Siteman Cancer Center. "ELEVATE features an easy-to-use smoking module built into the electronic health record that cues actions by multiple members of the oncology care team to assess smoking status, provide cessation advice, prescribe cessation medications, and offer a variety of cessation counseling options to patients who smoke."
"We must make sure oncology providers are fully supported by the entire healthcare team and have access to efficient EHR decision support," explained senior researcher Li-Shiun, Chen, MD, MPH, ScD, also with Siteman and Washington University. "We were pleasantly surprised to see how eager oncology providers are to transform their practice in order to offer tobacco treatment as part of routine care, as long as this evidence-based care is baked into their workflow and EHR. ELEVATE offers an innovative, low-burden paradigm shift so tobacco cessation strategies can be fully embedded into point-of-care for every oncology visit."
A total of 3,238 medical oncology patients documented in the EHR with a current smoking status were studied in the pre-implementation period (January through May 2018) and post-implementation period (June through December 2018). In the subsequent 6-month follow-up periods, 12% of those treated prior to the implementation of ELEVATE had documented smoking cessation, compared to 17.2% of those treated after implementation.
The researchers also compared the rates of cessation for medical oncology patients versus surgical oncology patients and general internal medicine patients at Washington University over the same time periods, who did not have access to the ELEVATE program during either time. That population group consisted of 9,719 patients who smoke without a known cancer diagnosis. They found no significant changes in the rate of smoking between the two time periods for this non-cancer group.
"Abstinence from smoking is a critical component of cancer care," commented Christine E. Sheffer, PhD, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, who was not involved with this research. "The findings from this pre-post quasi-experimental study, conducted from 2018 to 2019, demonstrates the utility of using an EHR-enabled cessation tool to reach cancer patients with a moderate intervention for smoking cessation."
Dr. Sheffer, a member of NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) Panel for Smoking Cessation continued: "Although the proportion of patients for whom a period of abstinence was reported during the 6 months after the intervention increased significantly, it still falls short of an obligation to provide long-term effective smoking cessation treatment as a critical component of care. Combining an EHR-enabled cessation tool with NCCN-recommended counseling and pharmacotherapy has the potential to further increase the proportion of patients who achieve, and maintain, abstinence from smoking."
The NCCN Guidelines® Panel for Smoking Cessation is comprised of multidisciplinary experts on topics that include oncology, psychology, pulmonary medicine, and supportive care, from across NCCN's 32 Member Institutions. Their recommendations are available free-of-charge for non-commercial use at NCCN.org or via the Virtual Library of NCCN Guidelines® App.
Smoking cessation advice is also included within NCCN Guidelines for specific cancer types. A study in the March 2022 issue of Journal of Urology found the NCCN Guidelines were the only clinical practice guidelines to include recommendations for both tobacco screening and smoking cessation for bladder cancer, and were among a very small group to provide both recommendations as part of their guidelines for non-small cell lung cancer.
To read the entire ELEVATE study, visit JNCCN.org. Complimentary access to "Increased Reach and Effectiveness With a Low-Burden Point-of-Care Tobacco Treatment Program in Cancer Clinics" is available until August 10, 2022.
About JNCCN—Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
More than 25,000 oncologists and other cancer care professionals across the United States read JNCCN—Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. This peer-reviewed, indexed medical journal provides the latest information about innovation in translational medicine, and scientific studies related to oncology health services research, including quality care and value, bioethics, comparative and cost effectiveness, public policy, and interventional research on supportive care and survivorship. JNCCN features updates on the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®), review articles elaborating on guidelines recommendations, health services research, and case reports highlighting molecular insights in patient care. JNCCN is published by Harborside. Visit JNCCN.org. To inquire if you are eligible for a FREE subscription to JNCCN, visit NCCN.org/jnccn/subscribe. Follow JNCCN on Twitter @JNCCN.
About the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) is a not-for-profit alliance of leading cancer centers devoted to patient care, research, and education. NCCN is dedicated to improving and facilitating quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care so all patients can live better lives. The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) provide transparent, evidence-based, expert consensus recommendations for cancer treatment, prevention, and supportive services; they are the recognized standard for clinical direction and policy in cancer management and the most thorough and frequently-updated clinical practice guidelines available in any area of medicine. The NCCN Guidelines for Patients® provide expert cancer treatment information to inform and empower patients and caregivers, through support from the NCCN Foundation®. NCCN also advances continuing education, global initiatives, policy, and research collaboration and publication in oncology. Visit NCCN.org for more information and follow NCCN on Facebook @NCCNorg, Instagram @NCCNorg, and Twitter @NCCN.
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TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Dozens of soccer fans have been deported back to Italy following violent clashes in Tirana ahead of Wednesday’s Europa Conference League final, Albania’s deputy head of police said.
Italian club Roma will face Dutch team Feyenoord in the match at the 20,000-capacity National Arena.
Two separate groups of Dutch and Italian fans clashed with police on Tuesday in the city, injuring 19 officers and five Albanian civilians. One police officer was injured from a knife attack, authorities said.
Three Italian fans and two Dutch supporters were also injured.
Before the start of the match, some fans were removed from the stadium by stewards following an alleged fight in the area allocated to Dutch supporters. Dutch fans also hurled flares onto the field.
On Wednesday, deputy head of police Albert Dervishi called on “Italian and Dutch fans to behave and act as European citizens, respect the country’s laws and not clash with police, or the laws will be strictly applied.”
Dervishi said 48 Italian fans and 12 Dutch supporters have been detained, adding anyone arrested could face up to seven years in prison. He said 80 fans were deported back to Italy.
The police official also called on businesses to avoid offering glass bottles to customers and warned Tirana residents to avoid “provocations from individuals or groups of fans who may be under the effect of alcohol.”
“We are determined to guarantee order and security, to prevent property destruction and the normal holding of the sporting activity,” Dervishi said.
Roma executive director Pietro Berardi, who met with Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj, asked fans of both teams to behave.
“There is a lot of enthusiasm and passion, but we should respect everyone,” Berardi said.
Feyenoord and Roma are storied clubs with big fan bases. Up to 100,000 fans are expected in Tirana despite each club being allocated only 4,000 tickets for the inaugural final of the third-tier European tournament.
There are separate “fan zones” for each club, only one kilometer (0.6 miles) apart.
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OAK BROOK, Ill., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LiftMaster®, the number one brand of professionally installed residential garage door openers, is expanding its line of Secure View™ garage door openers that include myQ® smart access technology and a built-in camera. The new LiftMaster Secure View 84505R comes with the same streaming videos, recorded events, motion detection and 2-way communication capabilities as the Secure View 87504-267. Plus, it provides homeowners who place a high importance around the security/safety of their home with a mid-tier price point.
"The garage is the main entry point to the home for 70 percent of today's homeowners," said Jackie Lorenty, LiftMaster's Executive Vice President, Residential Services & International. "Being able to monitor who is coming and going from the garage (kids, friends, extended family), while being able to control who you let in (the dog walker) or keep out (a family of raccoons) makes the Secure View garage door opener a must have smart home device that puts homeowners in control and enhances the security of the home."
As the desire to have a smart garage door opener with video capabilities continues to grow, LiftMaster is looking to meet those needs with its Secure View openers. In a recent survey of 1,000 homeowners, over half of young families would like a smart garage door opener with video capabilities. Eighty-six percent said they would feel better if they could visually confirm their garage door was closed and 77 percent believe having a smart garage door opener with video capabilities would make them feel their home is safer overall.
The Secure View line of smart garage door openers work with the myQ app so homeowners can check and SEE if they left the garage door open and close it – anytime, from anywhere. "With most smart cameras you can monitor your home from anywhere, but you don't have the control to do anything about what you see. With a LiftMaster Secure View garage door opener you get vision and control over what is happening in your garage no matter where you are," added Lorenty.
Secure View garage door openers also work with Amazon Key for secure and convenient in-garage delivery of Amazon packages and groceries. With Secure View's streaming video, recorded events and motion detection capabilities, homeowners will be alerted when there is a delivery taking place and can watch deliveries happen in real time for extra peace of mind.
Features of the Secure View 84505R include:
- Built-in camera – keep your family safe and take away all the guesswork with a built-in camera that adds streaming video, recorded events and 2-way communication to the myQ app so you can see what's happening from anywhere.
- Integrated LED lighting – dual lighting system provides 1,500 lumens of long-lasting LED light that brightens high-traffic areas of the garage.
- Quiet operation – ultra-quiet DC motor and strong belt drive system ensures for comfortable living spaces near the garage.
- Smartphone control – control, secure and monitor the garage with the myQ app- anytime, from anywhere.
- Remote diagnostic capabilities – myQ Diagnostics in the myQ app keep track of the device's health and ensures for quick and easy service repairs when needed.
To learn more about LiftMaster Secure View garage door openers, please visit LiftMaster.com. To find your nearest LiftMaster dealer, please visit Liftmaster.com/Locate-a-Dealer.
About LiftMaster
LiftMaster is the number one brand of professionally installed residential garage door openers, as well as a leading manufacturer of commercial door operators, residential and commercial gate operators, smart video intercoms and related access control products. Driven by the access and security needs of the marketplace, LiftMaster's expansive line of state-of-the-art residential and commercial products are designed to fit any lifestyle or application, providing the latest technology and innovations in safety, security and convenience. More information at LiftMaster.com.
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Acquisition of Michigan-based IONTOX brings unique in vitro screening platforms to expand LifeNet Health LifeSciences' all-human cell and tissue solutions
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LifeNet Health LifeSciences, a leader in all-human biomedical research solutions, is launching a new Cell-Based Assay Service following the acquisition of biotechnology firm IONTOX. These new in vitro screening options offer alternatives to animal testing that support safer, more effective novel compound discovery – providing a new level of human relevance and predictability, while furthering LifeNet Health's commitment to improve lives through the gift of donation.
The new services from LifeNet Health LifeSciences include:
- Cytotoxicity screening using high-quality, cell-based models with strong human relevance to identify potential adverse effects from drugs or chemicals. This includes options for rapidly testing hundreds of compounds at multiple concentrations.
- Biocompatibility assays for medical devices.
- A next-generation multi-organ platform that mimics the functionality of interconnected systems in the human body — offering advantages beyond traditional microphysiological systems (MPS). This novel, integrated organ system can be used to understand drug-organ and organ-organ interactions, as well as ADME properties.
To support this expansion, LifeNet Health LifeSciences welcomes IONTOX and its team of scientists – including founder and industry leader James McKim, PhD – to the LifeNet Health LifeSciences division. The IONTOX team brings 60-plus years of expertise with in vitro testing platforms. They have also developed unique technologies that complement LifeNet Health's all-human cells and biospecimens for research. Both organizations share a commitment to changing the future of human health by honoring the gifts of those who selflessly donate their organs and tissues for use in research to advance medicine.
"These innovative services provide a new way to support our partners — with the human-relevant data they need to make decisions faster and with greater accuracy," said LifeNet Health President and CEO Rony Thomas. "This can make a difference for millions of people around the world who can benefit from safer, more effective drug therapies."
The development of alternatives to animal testing has become increasingly important to researchers worldwide for toxicology, DMPK, and disease modeling applications. "New technologies are increasingly focused on in vitro cell-based predictive modeling," Dr. McKim said. "In vitro testing, where we have unique capabilities, is reaching a global pinnacle as a source of crucial safety data and an alternative to traditional screening methods like animal testing."
LifeNet Health LifeSciences has grown into a leading provider of all-human cells and biospecimens for research. In vitro assay services will now become its third area of focus. "Adding these important services is a direct extension of our mission," said John Herre, MD, Chairman of the LifeNet Health Board of Directors. "We are honoring donors' commitment to help others by supporting groundbreaking discoveries that can change the face of medical research globally."
For more information, visit LNHLifeSciences.org.
LifeNet Health LifeSciences is an innovative leader, trusted collaborator, and reliable solutions provider – with a commitment to providing game-changing innovations in human in vitro biology. Discover more at LNHLifeSciences.org.
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US agencies: Industrial control system malware discovered
BOSTON (AP) — Multiple U.S. government agencies issued a joint alert Wednesday warning of the discovery of malicious cyber tools created by unnamed advanced threat actors that they said were capable of gaining “full system access” to multiple industrial control systems.
The public alert from the Energy and Homeland Security Departments, the FBI and National Security Agency did not name the actors or offer details on the find.
But the CEO of one of the cybersecurity companies involved in the effort, Robert M. Lee of Dragos, says it has high confidence the malware was developed by a state actor and was configured to initially target liquified natural gas and electric power sites in North America.
Lee would not name the state actor, referring questions to the U.S. government. Nor would he explain how the malware was discovered, other than to say it was caught “before an attack was attempted.”
“We’re actually one step ahead of the adversary. None of us want them to understand where they screwed up,” said Lee. “Big win.”
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which published the alert, did not immediately respond to a request for details on the discovery or threat actor.
The U.S. government has warned critical infrastructure industries to gird for possible cyberattacks from Russia as retaliation for severe economic sanctions imposed on Moscow in response to its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.
Lee said the malware was “designed to be a framework to go after lots of different types of industries and be leveraged multiple times. Based on the configuration of it, the initial targets would be LNG and electric in North America.”
He said the malware, dubbed Pipedream, is only the seventh such malicious software to be identified that is designed to attack industrial control systems.
Lee said Dragos, which specializes in industrial control system protection, identified and analyzed its capability in early 2022 as part of its normal business research and in collaboration with partners.
He would offer no more specifics. The U.S. government alert offers thanks to Dragos, Mandiant, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks and Schneider Electric for their contributions.
Schneider Electric is one of the manufacturers listed in the alert whose equipment is targeted by the malware. Omron is another.
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Quick Custom Intelligence ("QCI") announced that they have been selected as a finalist for the Global Gaming Awards Las Vegas 2022 in the Digital Product of the year category. QCI Loyalty eliminates the burden of systems integration and the need for an app. It uses the now ubiquitous QR code for permissioned interactions, linking every touchpoint of a resort. Guests earn rewards and offers based on their property-wide activity tracked through smartphones. QCI Loyalty has been purpose-built to manage loyalty member data, member transactions and the operational aspects of a guest loyalty system across the entire property.
CTO of QCI, Andrew Cardno, stated, "QCI Loyalty, with its patented QR code technology, bypasses two generations of technology and steps into a maintenance-free modern world where operators can focus on unique experiences rather than the mechanics of printing player cards and doing player signup. What is especially exciting is that every gaming machine, every table game and every other touch point throughout the casino becomes a valuable interaction and a great place to signup new customers."
Featuring the newest and hottest slot machines, live Poker tables, nationally known recording artists and comedians, simulcast lounge and sports bar, dining and live Jai-Alai, The Casino @ Dania Beach offers a gaming and entertainment experience like no other. Plus, it is a proud participant of the Broward County Safe & Clean Pledge. www.CasinoDaniaBeach.com
The QCI Platform aligns player development, marketing and gaming with powerful real-time operational tools developed for the gaming and hospitality industries. QCI has installed their ground-breaking, highly configured software in more than 55 casino resorts in North American and over 3,000 sites worldwide. QCI products provide tooling for gaming operators managing over $20 billion in annual gross gaming revenue, these products are built on the QCI Platform, a best-in-class on-premises, hybrid or cloud-based technology that enables fully coordinated activities across gaming or hospitality operations. This data-driven software allows for quick, informed decisions in the ever-changing world of the casino industry and assists casinos in their efforts to optimize resources and profits, manage marketing campaigns and increase customer loyalty. QCI was founded by Dr. Ralph Thomas and Mr. Andrew Cardno. Based in San Diego, QCI also has offices in Las Vegas, St. Louis, Dallas & Phoenix. Main phone number: (858) 299.5715 www.QuickCustomIntelligence.com
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BOSTON, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors (the "Board") of The Taiwan Fund, Inc. (the "Fund") (NYSE: TWN), today announced that it has selected Nomura Asset Management U.S.A. Inc. ("Nomura") to become its Investment Adviser, subject to stockholder approval. Nomura is a U.S.-based firm registered as an investment adviser with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd. ("NAM Tokyo"), which is itself wholly owned by Nomura Holdings, Inc., a Japanese public company focused on the financial services industry. As of June 30, 2022, the total assets under management of NAM Tokyo and its investment advisory subsidiaries and affiliates (the NAM Group) amounted to US$463.4 billion. NAM Tokyo's subsidiary, Nomura Asset Management Taiwan Ltd., had total assets under management at June 30, 2022 of US$18.9 billion including US$5.6 billion invested in Taiwan equity mandates. Based on a search for and review of qualified investment managers conducted with the assistance of a consultant, the Board concluded that Nomura possesses the capabilities and skill to provide the Fund the best opportunity to continue to achieve superior investment performance. Nomura's investment process and philosophy centers on bottom-up stock picking with a team-based strategy that is broad across capitalizations and is growth-oriented.
Nomura has a dedicated 12 person investment team based in Taiwan specializing in the local equity market. This investment team has been continuously managing equity mandates on behalf of Taiwan government entities since 1998. The Nomura Taiwan Superior Equity Fund, a mutual fund offered in Taiwan, which has an investment strategy similar to the one proposed for the Fund, has ranked in the first quartile of its Lipper Global – Taiwan Equity universe over the two-and three-year periods ended March 31, 2022 and in the second quartile of its Lipper Global – Taiwan Equity universe for the one-year period ended March 31, 2022.
The proposed Investment Advisory Agreement between the Fund and Nomura (the "Proposed Agreement") is subject to approval by the Fund's stockholders at a Special Meeting of the Fund's stockholders scheduled for September 6, 2022. The Proposed Agreement provides for a base fee of 0.60% of the Fund's average daily net assets. The base fee will be subject to a performance adjustment that will add or subtract from the base fee 0.05% for each percentage point by which the total return of the Fund exceeds, or is exceeded by, the return of the TAIEX Total Return Index during each fiscal year of the Fund, with a maximum adjustment of +/- 0.25%. The Fund believes that this performance adjustment aligns the interest of the proposed Investment Adviser with the Fund's shareholders as it rewards the Investment Adviser for the Fund's relative outperformance against the Taiwan market while as importantly reducing the Investment Adviser's fees during any periods of relative underperformance, which will have the effect of decreasing the Fund's overall expense ratio during these periods.
The Fund is a diversified closed-end investment company, which seeks long term capital appreciation primarily through investments in equity securities listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. Shares of the Fund are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "TWN."
For additional information on the Fund, including information on the Fund's holdings, visit the Fund's website at www.thetaiwanfund.com or call 1-877-217-9502.
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Fidelity Joins Other Prominent Foundation Members at Inaugural FinOps X Summit to Educate and Drive Momentum for FinOps Ecosystem
PORTLAND, Ore., June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The FinOps Foundation, a part of The Linux Foundation's non-profit technology consortium and focused on advancing the people and practice of cloud financial management, announced today at the inaugural FinOps X Conference in Austin, Texas, that global financial services organization, Fidelity Investments, is joining as a Premier Member end user FinOps adopter member company.
A rapidly expanding number of forward-thinking companies across a wide range of industries are starting to develop FinOps teams and practices as they shift to the cloud in order to gain greater control over their cloud spend forecasting and migration planning. FinOps is now practiced in every major industry, with Financial Services and Information Technology being among the biggest adopters.
Fidelity counts more than 40 million people, 23,000 businesses and 3,600 advisory firms as customers and so is a natural fit to collaborate on the evolution of FinOps.
"As Fidelity continues our digital transformation journey, FinOps remains one of the key pillars in ensuring we get the most value out of every dollar spent in the cloud," shared Vice President for Fidelity's Cloud Business Office, Zach Stitham. "We are excited to be part of this community that continues to share experiences, learnings, and ultimately helps to foster a culture of accountability throughout organizations."
As the practice of FinOps takes hold in organizations of all sizes, the FinOps Foundation has continued its rapid expansion. It now serves over 5,700 practitioner members from more than 2,500 organizations. End user members like Fidelity Investments gain exposure in the FinOps community, have easy access to training and enhanced recruitment opportunities - accelerating the adoption and are coached on the development of their FinOps practice.
"We welcome Fidelity as a Premier Member as the FinOps Foundation continues its rapid growth and as the practice of FinOps gains steam in companies large and small," said J.R. Storment, Executive Director of the FinOps Foundation. "Fidelity's hub and spoke model of FinOps practice is a shining example of the right way to help a large, complex organization get the most value out of their cloud spend. Their expertise in their central FinOps team, as well as the dedicated business unit FinOps experts have been a big resource to the larger FinOps community cementing best practices that will give FinOps practitioners everywhere a bedrock foundation for their own efforts."
Fidelity today also received the first annual "Outstanding FinOps Team" award at FinOps X's mainstage for excellence in their broad scale implementation of FinOps and large bench of experts across their hub and spoke model.
The latest FinOps Foundation research indicates that large companies like Fidelity will continue to adopt FinOps, due to the complexity of their cloud environments, reporting requirements and the sheer number of disparate teams requiring collaboration.
With the explosive growth of cloud in recent years, organizations understand the critical need to ensure accountability for cloud spending in order to align cloud adoption and investment with business strategy and value.
To learn more about becoming a member of The FinOps Foundation visit https://www.finops.org/membership/
The FinOps Foundation (F2) is a non-profit trade association made up of FinOps practitioners around the world including Atlassian, Autodesk, Gannett, HERE Technologies, Just Eat, Nationwide and Spotify. Grounded in real world stories, expertise, and inspiration for and by FinOps practitioners, the FinOps Foundation is focused on codifying and promoting cloud financial management best practices and standards to help community members and their teams become better at cloud financial management.
Fidelity's mission is to inspire better futures and deliver better outcomes for the customers and businesses we serve. With assets under administration of $10.5trillion, including discretionary assets of $4.0trillion as of April 30, 2022, we focus on meeting the unique needs of a diverse set of customers. Privately held for over 75 years, Fidelity employs more than 58,000 associates who are focused on the long-term success of our customers. For more information about Fidelity Investments, visit About Fidelity - Our Company
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Airbnb offering stays in the Mystery Machine to celebrate ‘Scooby Doo’ film’s 20th anniversary
(CNN) - Fans of the “Scooby Doo” series have a chance to embrace their inner Shaggy or Velma.
Airbnb has three overnight stays along the coast of southern California in a recreation of the iconic Mystery Machine, the van used by the characters as they foiled mysteries.
This special offer is a tie-in with the 20th anniversary of the live-action “Scooby Doo” film.
Matthew Lillard, who played Shaggy in the movie, is hosting the stays, which are scheduled for June 24, 25 and 26.
Those who book a one-night stay will get lots of perks, including a late-night viewing of the film complete with all-you-can-eat snacks and other throwbacks to 2002, including the latest Sugar Ray album.
Booking information is available on Airbnb’s website here.
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WALL, N.J., May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Student Transportation of America (STA) celebrates its 25th anniversary today as an industry leader in student transportation, safety, and fleet services. Founded in 1997, STA operates more than 16,000 vehicles, providing more than 300 school districts across the United States and Canada with the highest level of safe and reliable student transportation, management, logistics and technology solutions.
"Since our inception, Student Transportation of America has prided itself on being a family business committed to the safety and the well-being of the students who depend on us each day," said Patrick Vaughan, CEO of STA. "It is because of the ongoing commitment and dedication of each and every employee that we are able to celebrate such a milestone today, and I thank each employee, past and present, for helping us to grow into one of the largest and most respected student transportation companies in North America."
The company's values are rooted in family business. STA founder Denis J. Gallagher grew up in the industry as his grandfather and father started the transit and charter bus company, Coast Cities, in 1922. Gallagher drew on that family tradition, starting STA with the same guiding principles – taking care of employees, customers, and communities.
The company is an industry leader in safety and training, providing drivers with the tools necessary to excel at their jobs by combining interactive training to supplement traditional behind-the-wheel and classroom training methods. Each STA driver is trained and educated on a variety of topics including Autism Spectrum Disorder awareness, special needs emergency evacuation plans, bullying, managing student behavior, and safety leadership.
STA is also committed to its customers. Understanding that school transportation is a local business, STA works with districts on plans that fit their unique needs, leading to a renewal rate just shy of 100% and consistent customer satisfaction.
Community remains at the heart of STA's services and a large part of that is a commitment to environmentally conscious programs across North America, reducing emissions and promoting better health and safer environments for passengers and families.
To date, STA has replaced more than 2,700 diesel-engine school buses with alternative-fuel vehicles and has solidified its commitment to the environment with the launch of its electric vehicle pilot program . The company has received a Green Fleet Magazine Sustainability All-Star Award for its leadership in the space.
"Today we celebrate our 25th anniversary with a nod to our history, but we also look to the future," said STA Chief Operating Officer Gene Kowalczewski. "Our success and longevity come from the dedication of our employees and a commitment across the company to innovation. We look forward to what the next 25 years will bring as we continuously work to provide the safest transportation for students, employment opportunities for communities, and sustainable transportation options for a healthy environment."
About Student Transportation of America
Founded in 1997, Student Transportation of America (STA) is an industry leader in school transportation, safety and fleet services. STA operates more than 16,000 vehicles, providing customers with the highest level of safe and reliable student transportation, management, logistics and technology solutions throughout the U.S. and Canada. Services are delivered by drivers, dispatchers, maintenance technicians, managers, information technology professionals and others, who are caring members of their local communities. For more information, please visit www.rideSTA.com.
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Despite 11 denials, John Lennon’s killer to appear in parole hearing
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow/Gray News) - Mark David Chapman, the man who shot and killed John Lennon, is up for parole.
Officials said he is scheduled for a parole hearing sometime this week, Hawaii News Now reports.
Chapman was convicted more than 40 years ago of killing the famed Beatles member as he entered his luxury New York apartment on Dec. 8, 1980.
He was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison and has been denied parole 11 times.
Chapman was an out-of-work security guard from Hawaii with a history of mental illness.
In 2000, Chapman was eligible for parole the first time. It was denied. He was denied parole again every two years thereafter.
Every two years, Chapman has gone before a parole board to plead his case. And every time, they’ve determined he should not be freed.
The latest denial came in August 2020. He was denied release and given a hold for 24 months.
The Board of Parole now has two weeks to make a decision on whether or not to grant Chapman’s release.
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Support for the Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP) ensures that Neurotechnology's customers in governments and large organizations can take full advantage of the MOSIP identity platform to implement digital, foundational ID systems
VILNIUS, Lithuania, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurotechnology, a provider of deep learning-based solutions and high-precision biometric identification technologies, today announced the integration and support of the Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP) for its MegaMatcher ABIS and MegaMatcher SDK products. MOSIP is a modular and open source identity platform that helps user organizations, such as governments, implement a digital, foundational identification (ID) system in a cost effective way. ID systems are the backbone for effective delivery of public and private services worldwide, and Neurotechnology's MegaMatcher ABIS and MegaMatcher SDK multi-biometric identification systems deliver on MOSIP best practices for scalability, security and privacy.
MegaMatcher SDK is a comprehensive development kit used to create and realize single- or multi-biometric applications and systems for Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android and ARM Linux platforms. It includes Neurotechnology's top-ranked biometric recognition algorithms for fingerprint, face, eye iris, voice and palm-print modalities. The biometric engine of each biometric modality can be used singularly or in combination with any of the other modalities to develop multimodal biometric systems that leverage the enhanced accuracy provided through matching score fusion.
MegaMatcher ABIS is a complete biometric solution that provides a ready-to-use interface for managing the many transaction types commonly used with identity management systems. It features fingerprint, face, iris and palm-print biometrics, and the system also includes an adjudication module and a latent fingerprint editor among other capabilities.
By supporting the MOSIP API, MegaMatcher SDK and MegaMatcher ABIS can now be used in existing and future MOSIP-based large-scale identity projects, including biometric passports, voter registration and deduplication, border control, law enforcement, social services and a wide range of other applications that rely on secure, reliable person identification.
"Two of the main differentiators of our biometric technology have always been openness to a wide range of standards and the free trials that are easily accessible to everyone from our web site" said Antonello Mincone, Business Development Director for Neurotechnology. "Being a partner with MOSIP, and making our core technology compliant with its API definitions, is simply the natural path to follow to maintain our core principles and further strengthen trust among our thousands of customers worldwide"
The MOSIP implementations for MegaMatcher SDK and MegaMatcher ABIS are available on request for government institutions and system integrators who aim to test and use Neurotechnology's capabilities through this open standard.
"We believe in collaborating with our partners to make available a variety of cutting-edge technology solutions that work seamlessly with MOSIP," said Sanjith Sundaram, Head - Biometric Ecosystem for MOSIP. "This eventually helps adopting countries in achieving their goal of inclusion in a much more efficient and cost-effective way. We look forward to working with Neurotechnology, and leveraging their expertise in the field, contributing to the common goal that we all share."
The MOSIP implementation of MegaMatcher ABIS is also available through the MOSIP Market Place, recently announced by MOSIP during ID4Africa 2022 event in Morocco.
Neurotechnology is a developer of high-precision algorithms and software based on deep neural networks and other AI-related technologies. The company was launched in 1990 in Vilnius, Lithuania, with the key idea of using neural networks for various applications, such as biometric person identification, computer vision, robotics and artificial intelligence. Since the first release of its fingerprint identification system in 1991, the company has delivered more than 200 products and version upgrades. More than 3,000 system integrators, security companies and hardware providers in more than 140 countries integrate Neurotechnology's algorithms into their products. The company's algorithms have achieved top results in independent technology evaluations, including NIST MINEX, PFT, FRVT and IREX and Neurotechnology's solutions are used around the globe on national-scale projects, including the world's largest biometric database, India's Aadhaar ID program, and ensuring electoral integrity during the elections in Ghana and DR Congo. https://www.neurotechnology.com
The International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B), a world-renowned technology university, is anchoring the MOSIP project as a global public good. This effort is being funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Sir Ratan Tata Trust, Norad and Omidyar Network.
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Christopher Swann and Kenneth Hart are Nominees for Preferred Share Trustees
PHILADELPHIA, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PREIT (NYSE: PEI), today issued the following statement:
The Company and its proxy solicitor continue to make efforts to achieve a quorum for the Preferred Share Trustee nominees prior to August 2, 2022 and again urge eligible Preferred Shareholders to vote.
All holders of record of PREIT's 7.375% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Shares (the "Series B Preferred"), the 7.20% Series C Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Shares (the "Series C Preferred"), and the Trust's 6.875% Series D Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Shares (the "Series D Preferred," and, together with the Series B Preferred and the Series C Preferred, the "Outstanding Preferred Shares"), as of the Record Date are entitled to notice of and to vote together as a single class on the proposal to elect two Preferred Share Trustees, Christopher Swann and Kenneth Hart, submitted to the holders of Outstanding Preferred Shares at the Annual Meeting and any adjournment or postponement thereof. On the Record Date, 3,450,000 Series B Preferred, 6,900,000 Series C Preferred, and 5,000,000 Series D Preferred, were outstanding, for an aggregate total of 15,350,000 Outstanding Preferred Shares.
Pursuant to the terms of the Designating Amendments, holders of Outstanding Preferred Shares are entitled to receive, when, as and if authorized by the Board of Trustees and declared by PREIT, out of the funds of the Company legally available therefor, cash dividends payable in equal quarterly installments. The terms of the Designating Amendments further provide that, if and whenever six quarterly dividends are in arrears, the number of members of the Company's Board of Trustees will be increased by two and the holders of Outstanding Preferred Shares, voting separately as a class, will have the right to vote and elect these two additional trustees. PREIT is restricted under the terms of its credit facilities from paying dividends on its Outstanding Preferred Shares. Accordingly, for six consecutive quarters, the sixth quarter being the fourth quarter of 2021, the Board of Trustees has not declared quarterly cash dividends on PREIT's Outstanding Preferred Shares for which the Outstanding Preferred Shares are entitled and owed. Thus, in accordance with the Designating Amendments, PREIT's Board of Trustees will be increased by two, and the holders of the Outstanding Preferred Shares, voting together as a separate, single class, have the right to elect two additional trustees to the Board of Trustees at an annual meeting of shareholders or a properly called special meeting of the holders of the Outstanding Preferred Shares. This right will continue at every annual meeting of shareholders until PREIT has paid all accrued and unpaid dividends on the Outstanding Preferred Shares in full and the dividends for the then current dividend period have been paid in full or declared and set apart for payment in full, at which time the right is terminated.
Accordingly, Christopher Swann and Kenneth Hart are Preferred Share Trustee Nominees standing for election.
Eligible shareholders may cast their vote by contacting Alliance Advisors at 1-866-407-1960 between the hours of 9:00am and 10:00pm Eastern time, Monday through Friday and Saturday and Sunday from 10:00am to 6:00pm, as noted in soliciting materials furnished to the SEC.
About PREIT
PREIT (NYSE:PEI) is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that owns and manages innovative properties developed to be thoughtful, community-centric hubs. PREIT's robust portfolio of carefully curated, ever-evolving properties generates success for its tenants and meaningful impact for the communities it serves by keenly focusing on five core areas of established and emerging opportunity: multi-family & hotel, health & tech, retail, essentials & grocery and experiential. Located primarily in densely-populated regions, PREIT is a top operator of high quality, purposeful places that serve as one-stop destinations for customers to shop, dine, play and stay. Additional information is available at www.preit.com or on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements that can be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "project," "intend," "may" or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements relate to expectations, beliefs, projections, future plans, strategies, anticipated events, trends and other matters that are not historical facts. These forward-looking statements reflect our current expectations and assumptions regarding our business, the economy and other future events and conditions and are based on currently available financial, economic and competitive data and our current business plans. Actual results could vary materially depending on risks, uncertainties and changes in circumstances that may affect our operations, markets, services, prices and other factors as discussed in the Risk Factors section of our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. While we believe our assumptions are reasonable, we caution you against relying on any forward-looking statements as it is very difficult to predict the impact of known factors, and it is impossible for us to anticipate all factors that could affect our actual results. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the effectiveness of our financial restructuring and any additional strategies that we may employ to address our liquidity and capital resources in the future; our ability to achieve forecasted revenue and pro forma leverage ratio and generate free cash flow to further reduce indebtedness; the COVID-19 global pandemic and the public health and governmental response, which have created periods of significant economic disruption and also have and may continue to exacerbate many of the risks listed herein; changes in the retail and real estate industries, including bankruptcies, consolidation and store closings, particularly among anchor tenants; changes in economic conditions, including unemployment rates and its effects on consumer confidence and spending, supply chain challenges, the current inflationary environment, and the corresponding effects on tenant business performance, prospects, solvency and leasing decisions; our inability to collect rent due to the bankruptcy or insolvency of tenants or otherwise; our ability to maintain and increase property occupancy, sales and rental rates; increases in operating costs that cannot be passed on to tenants, which may be exacerbated in the current inflationary environment; the effects of online shopping and other uses of technology on our retail tenants; risks related to our development and redevelopment activities, including delays, cost overruns and our inability to reach projected occupancy or rental rates; social unrest and acts of vandalism or violence at malls, including our properties, or at other similar spaces, and the potential effect on traffic and sales; our ability to sell properties that we seek to dispose of, which may be delayed by, among other things, the failure to obtain zoning, occupancy and other governmental approvals and permits or, to the extent required, approvals of other third parties; potential losses on impairment of certain long-lived assets, such as real estate, including losses that we might be required to record in connection with any disposition of assets; our substantial debt and our ability to remain in compliance with our financial covenants under our debt facilities; our ability to raise capital, including through sales of properties or interests in properties, subject to the terms of our credit agreements; and potential dilution from any capital raising transactions or other equity issuances.
Additional factors that might cause future events, achievements or results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by our forward-looking statements include those discussed herein, and in the sections entitled "Item 1A. Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021. We do not intend to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, future events or otherwise.
Important Information
This material may be deemed solicitation in respect of the Annual Meeting to be reconvened to consider and vote on the Preferred Trustee Election Proposal and held on August 2, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. In connection with the Annual Meeting, PREIT filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a definitive proxy statement on April 22, 2022. BEFORE MAKING ANY VOTING DECISION, SHAREHOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT, ANY SUPPLEMENTS THERETO AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC, BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. A notice of internet availability of proxy materials containing instructions on how to access the definitive proxy statement was mailed to shareholders entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. No changes have been made in the Preferred Trustee Election Proposal to be voted on by holders of PREIT's outstanding preferred shares at the Annual Meeting. PREIT's definitive proxy statement and other documents filed by PREIT may be obtained free of charge from the SEC's website, www.sec.gov. PREIT's shareholders may also obtain, without charge, a copy of the definitive proxy statement and other relevant filed documents by directing a request by mail to PREIT, One Commerce Square, 2005 Market Street, Suite 1000, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, or from the Company's website, https:// www.preit.com.
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NEW YORK, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Seelos Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEEL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of therapies for central nervous system disorders and rare diseases, announced today an amendment of the agreement with Phoenixus AG, formerly known as Vyera Pharmaceuticals AG ("Vyera"), for the development of SLS-002 (intranasal racemic ketamine) to repurchase in cash and stock the remaining royalties payable on any future net sales of SLS-002, all future success and commercial based milestones and the change of control fee in the event SLS-002 is acquired.
On March 6, 2018, Seelos entered into an asset purchase agreement (the "Purchase Agreement") with Vyera, currently known as Phoenixus AG, to acquire the assets and liabilities of Vyera's intranasal racemic ketamine program, which Seelos now calls SLS-002. As additional consideration to certain upfront cash and equity payments and success-based milestone payments contemplated under the prior agreement, Seelos agreed to pay a mid-teens percentage royalty on any future net sales of SLS-002. In February 2021, Seelos amended the asset purchase agreement, for three additional cash payments, agreeing to repurchase 9% of the future royalties and reduce its royalty obligations to a mid-single digit percentage on any future net sales of SLS-002. Seelos completed those payments in February, June, and September of 2021. Under the amendment entered into on April 8, 2022, for additional cash and stock payments due by April 2022, July 2022 and January 2023, the parties have agreed to terminate in full all contingent payment obligations to Vyera and its related entities under the Purchase Agreement, effective upon the payment and issuance of all cash and stock payments.
"We believe this repurchase of the remaining financial obligations owed or that may become payable on SLS-002 has the potential to return meaningful future value to Seelos' stockholders, assuming we are successful in the clinical development, regulatory approval processes, and commercialization of the intranasal ketamine program," said Raj Mehra, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO of Seelos.
"This amendment removes all future royalties due to Vyera, nearly $100 million of potential future milestones and a change of control fee in the event this program were to be acquired as a standalone transaction or as part of a larger transaction," said Michael Golembiewski, CFO of Seelos.
About SLS-002
SLS-002 is intranasal racemic ketamine with two investigational new drug applications for the treatment of Acute Suicidal Ideation and Behavior in Major Depressive Disorder or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. SLS-002 was originally derived from a Javelin Pharmaceuticals, Inc./Hospira, Inc. program with 16 clinical studies involving approximately 500 subjects. SLS-002 looks to address an unmet need for a therapy to treat suicidality in the U.S. Traditionally, anti-depressants have been used in this setting but many of the existing treatments are known to contribute to an increased risk of suicidal thoughts in some circumstances, and if they are effective, it often takes weeks for the full therapeutic effect to be manifested. The clinical development program for SLS-002 included two parallel healthy volunteer studies (Phase I) and is being followed by pivotal registration studies after meeting with the FDA. Based on information gathered from the databases of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, there were more than 1,000,000 visits to emergency rooms for suicide attempts in 2019 in the U.S. alone. Experimental studies suggest ketamine has the potential to be a rapid, effective treatment for depression and suicidality.
About Seelos Therapeutics
Seelos Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and advancement of novel therapeutics to address unmet medical needs for the benefit of patients with central nervous system (CNS) disorders and other rare diseases. The Company's robust portfolio includes several late-stage clinical assets targeting indications including Acute Suicidal Ideation and Behavior (ASIB) in Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA), Sanfilippo syndrome, Parkinson's Disease, other psychiatric and movement disorders plus orphan diseases.
For more information, please visit our website: http://seelostherapeutics.com, the content of which is not incorporated herein by reference.
Forward Looking Statements
Statements made in this press release, which are not historical in nature, constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include, among others, those regarding the ability of the royalty repurchase to return meaningful future value to Seelos stockholders, and Seelos' ability to succeed in the clinical development, regulatory approval processes and commercialization of its intranasal ketamine program (SLS-002). These statements are based on Seelos' current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. Risks associated to Seelos' business include, but are not limited to, the risk of not successfully executing its preclinical and clinical studies, and not gaining marketing approvals for its product candidates, the risk that prior clinical results may not be replicated in future studies and trials, the risks that clinical study results may not meet any or all endpoints of a clinical study and that any data generated from such studies may not support a regulatory submission or approval, the risks associated with the implementation of a new business strategy, the risks related to raising capital to fund its development plans and ongoing operations, risks related to Seelos' current stock price, risks related to the global impact of COVID-19, as well as other factors expressed in Seelos' periodic filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in our forward-looking statements are reasonable, we do not know whether our expectations will prove correct. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof, even if subsequently made available by us on our website or otherwise. We do not undertake any obligation to update, amend or clarify these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.
Contact Information
Anthony Marciano
Chief Communications Officer
Seelos Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEEL)
300 Park Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10022
(646) 293-2136
anthony.marciano@seelostx.com
www.seelostherapeutics.com
https://twitter.com/seelostx
https://www.linkedin.com/company/seelos
Mike Moyer
Managing Director
LifeSci Advisors, LLC
250 West 55th St., Suite 3401
New York, NY 10019
(617) 308-4306
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Enhanced detection and response service offering further empowers MSP partners via new integration, addition of SOAR, and more
Highlights:
- Barracuda introduces integration between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Barracuda XDR as well as mapping of detection rules with MITRE ATT&CK(R) framework to quickly address detection gaps.
- Barracuda XDR and CloudGen Firewall integration enables managed service providers (MSPs) to gain visibility and insights, and to help increase efficiency with 24x7 SOC services.
- Barracuda is also enhancing its Security Operations Center (SOC) with Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) to ensure faster response time.
CAMPBELL, Calif., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Barracuda, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today announced continued innovation of its XDR platform with integration between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Barracuda XDR; the mapping of threat detection rules against MITRE ATT&CK(™) framework; and the addition of Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) capabilities to its Security Operations Center (SOC).
The intensified threat landscape has created an environment where it's no longer 'if' but 'when' an attack will occur. In the past 12 months, Barracuda researchers identified and analyzed 106 highly publicized ransomware attacks and found the dominant targets are still in five key industries: education, municipalities, healthcare, infrastructure, and financial. The number of ransomware attacks increased year-over-year across each of these five industry verticals, and attacks against other industries more than doubled compared to what we saw last year.
Spear phishing is also on the rise and according to the recent Barracuda report, Spear Phishing: Top Threats and Trends Vol. 7, the average employee of a small business with less than 100 employees will experience 350% more social engineering attacks than an employee of a larger enterprise.
With cyberattacks increasing in both frequency and sophistication, having standalone security solutions is no longer sufficient for partners to effectively protect their customers. To be successful, partners need to enable businesses to achieve the basic cybersecurity hygiene required by today's environment. That cybersecurity hygiene includes proactive monitoring with extended visibility, building concentric rings of security layers, and 24x7 detection & response, because cybercriminals work around the clock.
With the new integration between Barracuda XDR and CloudGen Firewall, partners can gain visibility and insights by offering 24x7 SOC services, and increase efficiency by reducing product silos, mitigating alert fatigue, and streamlining management of their customers' environments. The new mapping of detection rules to the MITRE ATT&CK® framework provides the Barracuda SOC team with guidelines and the ability to quickly address detection gaps. The introduction of SOAR to the Barracuda SOC infrastructure ensures faster response time, streamlines processes, and more importantly, provides increased protection when a cyberattack takes place.
Barracuda acquired SKOUT Cybersecurity in 2021 to further enable partners with their security offerings. During the past year, Barracuda has integrated the Barracuda email protection portfolio, and now Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, with Barracuda XDR services.
The Barracuda XDR offering spans Endpoint Security, Email Security, Cloud Security, Network Security, and Server Security, enabling partners to create security services that align with today's business environments and to deliver holistic cybersecurity-as-a-service for their customers.
"We're always looking for ways to empower partners, and MSPs specifically, to take their business to the next level and an important part of that is enabling them to confidently secure their clients' environments," said Neal Bradbury, SVP, MSP Business at Barracuda. "Earlier this year, we completed the integration of Barracuda XDR with our email protection portfolio. Now, by integrating the Barracuda CloudGen Firewall with Barracuda XDR, mapping detection rules to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, and adding SOAR to our SOC infrastructure, we can provide comprehensive visibility across multiple attack surfaces through the Barracuda XDR dashboard, while increasing the speed of detection and response time through our SOC."
"The security requirements businesses must continue to change as the overall threat landscape evolves. As an MSP, our customers expect us to provide comprehensive security services that not only prevent but also proactively detect and respond to cyberthreats. This is not something most managed service providers are built for. The Barracuda XDR solution combines data across our security stacks through a single dashboard view, giving us the visibility we need to proactively monitor our customers' infrastructure. Its team of security experts and mature SOC is a strong differentiator we can rely on to expand our service to support 24x7 detection and response," said Richard Flanders, Customer Strategy Director, Aura Technology.
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Expanded XDR capabilities strengthen Barracuda's security offering to MSPs: http://cuda.co/bg0913xdr
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https://barracudamsp.com/
Barracuda Secured.22 Customer Conference, happening this week September 13 and 14, is the company's annual global virtual conference for Barracuda customers. Barracuda Secured.22 is an informative event covering technical security scenarios that enable practitioners to identify, prevent, recover, and respond quickly to cyber security attacks. For more information, please visit: https://barracuda.events/secured.22/.
At Barracuda we strive to make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-first, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data, and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers' journey. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect them — in ways they may not even know they are at risk — so they can focus on taking their business to the next level. For more information, visit barracuda.com.
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Ukraine says Russia preparing offensive in southeast
BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) - Russian forces on Tuesday were preparing for an offensive in Ukraine’s southeast, the Ukrainian military said, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepared to talk to the U.N. Security Council amid outrage over evidence Moscow’s soldiers deliberately killed civilians.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government is pouring soldiers into Ukraine’s east to gain control of the industrial heartland known as the Donbas. That follows a Russian withdrawal from towns around the capital, Kyiv, which led to the discovery of corpses, prompting accusations of war crimes and demands for tougher sanctions on Moscow.
Russian forces are focused on seizing the cities of Popasna and Rubizhne in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the Black Sea port of Mariupol, the General Staff said on its Facebook page. Donetsk and Luhansk are controlled by Russian-backed separatists and recognized by Moscow as independent states. The General Staff said access to Kharkiv in the east, Ukraine’s second-largest city, was blocked.
“The enemy is regrouping troops and concentrating its efforts on preparing an offensive operation in the east of our country,” the statement said. “The goal is to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.”
Zelenskyy, speaking from Ukraine, planned to address Security Council diplomats Tuesday amid demands for an investigation of possible war crimes.
Germany and France reacted by expelling dozens of Russian diplomats, suggesting they were spies. President Joe Biden said Putin should be tried for war crimes.
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“This guy is brutal, and what’s happening in Bucha is outrageous,” Biden said, referring to the town northwest of the capital that was the scene of some of the horrors.
In another show of support, European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen plans to travel to Kyiv to meet with Zelenskyy this week, her spokesman Eric Mamer announced.
Before Zelenskyy speaks, the most powerful U.N. body is due to be briefed by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres; his political chief, Rosemary DiCarlo; and U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths, who is trying to arrange a cease-fire. Griffiths met with Russian officials in Moscow on Monday and is due to visit Ukraine.
Associated Press journalists in Bucha counted dozens of corpses in civilian clothes and apparently without weapons, many shot at close range, and some with their hands bound or their flesh burned.
After touring neighborhoods of Bucha and speaking to hungry survivors lining up for bread, Zelenskyy pledged in a video address that Ukraine would work with the European Union and the International Criminal Court to identify Russian fighters involved in any atrocities.
“The time will come when every Russian will learn the whole truth about who among their fellow citizens killed, who gave orders, who turned a blind eye to the murders,” he said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed the scenes outside Kyiv as a “stage-managed anti-Russian provocation.” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the images contained “signs of video forgery and various fakes.”
Russia has rejected previous allegations of atrocities as fabrications by Ukraine.
Ukrainian officials said the bodies of at least 410 civilians have been found in towns around Kyiv that were recaptured from Russian forces.
The Ukrainian prosecutor-general’s office described one room discovered in Bucha as a “torture chamber.” In a statement, it said the bodies of five men with their hands bound were found in the basement of a children’s sanatorium where civilians were tortured and killed.
The bodies seen by AP journalists in Bucha included at least 13 in and around a building that local people said Russian troops used as a base. Three other bodies were found in a stairwell, and a group of six were burned together.
The dead witnessed by the news agency’s journalists also included bodies wrapped in black plastic, piled on one end of a mass grave in a Bucha churchyard. Many of those victims had been shot in cars or killed in explosions trying to flee the city. With the morgue full and the cemetery impossible to reach, the churchyard was the only place to keep the dead, Father Andrii Galavin said.
Tanya Nedashkivs’ka said she buried her husband in a garden outside their apartment building after he was detained by Russian troops. His body was one of those left heaped in a stairwell.
“Please, I am begging you, do something!” she said. “It’s me talking, a Ukrainian woman, a Ukrainian woman, a mother of two kids and one grandchild. For all the wives and mothers, make peace on Earth so no one ever grieves again.”
Another Bucha resident, Volodymyr Pilhutskyi, said his neighbor Pavlo Vlasenko was taken away by Russian soldiers because the military-style pants he was wearing and the uniforms that Vlasenko said belonged to his security guard son appeared suspicious. When Vlasenko’s body was later found, it had burn marks from a flamethrower, his neighbor said.
Russia’s U.N. ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, insisted Monday at a news conference that during the time that Bucha was under Russian control, “not a single local person has suffered from any violent action.”
However, high-resolution satellite imagery by commercial provider Maxar Technologies showed that many of the bodies have been lying in the open for weeks, during the time that Russian forces were in Bucha. The New York Times first reported on the satellite images showing the dead.
Western and Ukrainian leaders have accused Russia of war crimes before. The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor has already opened an investigation. But the latest reports ratcheted up the condemnation.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the images from Bucha reveal the “unbelievable brutality of the Russian leadership and those who follow its propaganda.”
French President Emmanuel Macron said there is “clear evidence of war crimes” in Bucha that demand new punitive measures.
“I’m in favor of a new round of sanctions and in particular on coal and gasoline. We need to act,” he said on France-Inter radio.
Though united in outrage, the European allies appeared split on how to respond. While Poland urged Europe to quickly wean itself off Russian energy, Germany said it would stick with a gradual approach of phasing out coal and oil imports over the next several months.
Russia withdrew many of its forces from the area around Kyiv after being thwarted in its bid to swiftly capture the capital. It has instead poured troops into southeastern Ukraine.
About two-thirds of the Russian troops around Kyiv have left and are either in Belarus or on their way there, probably getting more supplies and reinforcements, said a senior U.S. defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an intelligence assessment.
More than 1,500 civilians were able to escape Mariupol on Monday, using the dwindling number of private vehicles available to leave, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said. The besieged southern port city has seen some of the heaviest fighting of the war.
But amid the fighting, a Red Cross-accompanied convoy of buses that has been thwarted for days on end in a bid to deliver supplies and evacuate residents was again unable to get inside the city, Vereshchuk said.
Elsewhere, Russian shelling killed 11 people in the southern city of Mykolaiv, regional governor Vitaliy Kim said in a video message on social media.
Zelenskyy appealed for more weaponry as Russia prepares new offensives.
“If we had already got what we needed — all these planes, tanks, artillery, anti-missile and anti-ship weapons — we could have saved thousands of people,” he said.
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Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Ukraine; Edith Lederer at the United Nations; Lolita Baldor in Washington and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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- World renowned space enthusiast William Shatner has teamed up with Rapyd to offer developers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel aboard one of the first-ever carbon-neutral space flights to the edge of space
- Members of Rapyd's Software Developer Community will be given the chance to solve weekly challenges with the opportunity to win over $1 million in cash, prizes, trips and tickets
LONDON, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rapyd, the leading fintech-as-a-service platform, today announces the launch of its Hack the Galaxy challenge; a series of virtual challenges for developers to win tickets to ride to the edge of space in a private capsule launching in 2026. Check out this video from Rapyd partner William Shatner announcing the challenge.
Beginning today, challenges will be posted in the Rapyd Developer Community every week through October 3. Members will have an opportunity to compete in a total of 42 challenges. Each solution will reveal a password unlocking an entry to win tickets to the edge of space aboard the Space Perspective Spaceship Neptune.
The three individual winners - one each announced on July 11, September 2 and October 14, 2022 - plus one winning hackathon team named the Galaxy's Greatest Fintech Developer will board the world's only carbon-neutral spaceship for the six hour trip. The winners will enjoy 360 degree views, 450 miles in any direction, while relaxing in the capsule's Space Lounge featuring plush reclining seats and the largest-ever panoramic windows to be flown to the edge of space.
In addition to the challenges for the developer community, there are additional opportunities to win via live events and four Hack the Galaxy-themed hackathons taking place throughout the year. The top team from each of these hackathons will be flown to Rapyd's Developer Demo Day in Lisbon, Portugal in November 2022 to present their ideas in front of a panel of judges. The ultimate winning team will be crowned the 'Galaxy's Greatest Fintech Developers' and be rewarded with the trip to the edge of space. Winners may also opt to choose a cash alternative prize of $130,000. Rapyd encourages anyone from eligible countries to join the developer community and participate.
All participants have opportunities to win dozens of other prizes throughout the challenge.
Arik Shtilman CEO at Rapyd says: "The Hack the Galaxy challenge is a once in a lifetime experience and contest for our growing community of over 50,000 software developers. Developers are the dreamers and doers of fintech innovation - at Rapyd, we're on a quest to attract accomplished talent to welcome to our community. Millions of developers around the world are reimagining financial services bringing together new ideas and innovation to solve the problem of how businesses and consumers pay and want to be paid in markets across the planet. We're committed to ensuring that they have access to the best tools, support and advice so that they can continue to make payment and fintech applications more frictionless. By launching this world-first contest, we are not only able to find and crown the greatest fintech developer on Planet Earth and beyond but also create a place for like-minded thinkers across the globe who are hungry to connect and share ideas".
William Shatner, Film and TV icon and space enthusiast comments: "Having been to space myself, I can't express how incredible an opportunity this is for software developers all over the world. It's an experience I wouldn't trade for anything. I'm excited to partner with Rapyd to spread the word to the developers worldwide to join the Rapyd Developer Community and complete the puzzles for a chance to win a trip to the edge of space!"
The Rapyd Developer Community is far more than a ticket to space. The community has become a hub for developers to learn, connect and share with others in the fintech world. From learning how to use Rapyd's APIs, to collaborating on business ideas and local hackathons, the Rapyd Developer Community is a launching pad for creativity and success.
Can You Hack the Galaxy? Join the Rapyd Developer Community to solve unique puzzles and receive invitations to live and virtual developer events that can earn you entry into a Hack the Galaxy drawing. For full details, please visit https://www.hackthegalaxy.dev
Rapyd is the fastest way to power local payments anywhere in the world, enabling companies across the globe to access markets quicker than ever before. By utilising Rapyd's unparalleled payments network and Fintech-as-a-Service platform, businesses and consumers can engage in local and cross-border transactions in any market. The Rapyd platform is unifying fragmented payment systems worldwide by bringing together 900-plus payment methods in over 100 countries. Rapyd's investors include Stripe, General Catalyst, Oak HC/FT, Coatue, Tiger Global, Durable Capital, Latitude, Target Global, and Tal Capital. To learn more about the company that is accelerating the Fintech-as-a-Service revolution, visit www.rapyd.net, join our developer community, or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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FINDLAY, Ohio, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MPLX LP (NYSE: MPLX) will host a conference call on Tuesday, August 2, 2022, at 9:30 a.m. EDT to discuss 2022 second-quarter financial results.
Interested parties may listen to the conference call by visiting MPLX's website at www.mplx.com. A replay of the webcast will be available on MPLX's website for two weeks. Financial information, including the earnings release and other investor-related material, will also be available online prior to the conference call and webcast at www.mplx.com.
MPLX is a diversified, large-cap master limited partnership that owns and operates midstream energy infrastructure and logistics assets, and provides fuels distribution services. MPLX's assets include a network of crude oil and refined product pipelines; an inland marine business; light-product terminals; storage caverns; refinery tanks, docks, loading racks, and associated piping; and crude and light-product marine terminals. The company also owns crude oil and natural gas gathering systems and pipelines as well as natural gas and NGL processing and fractionation facilities in key U.S. supply basins. More information is available at www.mplx.com.
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NEW YORK, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for NIO, PIXY, DKNG, RBLX, and AFRM.
To see how InvestorsObserver's proprietary scoring system rates these stocks, view the InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alert by selecting the corresponding link.
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Artifacts from Shackleton’s Antarctica expedition sold at auction
(CNN) – A collection of treasures from one of the greatest polar explorers has sold at auction in London.
The items are from Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctica voyages more than a century ago.
Shackleton was born in Ireland but lived most of his life in England. He had a longtime fascination with Antarctica and visited the continent four times.
The items sold at a Sotheby’s auction this week included a bronze medallion awarded to Shackleton by the “Chilean Historical and Geographical Society.”
It also included one of the first books ever printed and bound on Antarctica, which was edited by Shackleton.
The highest priced item: a map of Antarctica Shackleton drew, detailing what he learned from his 1914 to 1916 expedition, was also sold.
That went for $220,000.
The wreck of Shackleton’s ship “HMS Endurance” was located in the Weddell Sea earlier this year, 107 years after it sank.
Shackleton and his crew escaped on foot and in small boats.
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MADISON, Wis., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DeSo Blockchain announces the launch of OpenProsper, The First Social Block Explorer for their decentralized social blockchain. The OpenProsper dashboard provides a look into the important activity on the DeSo Blockchain, allowing users to analyze relevant blockchain information such as total creator earnings, total wallets on DeSo, and transaction fees per post.
OpenProsper is filling the role as the go-to analytics platform in the decentralized social media ecosystem. Created by Fintech and McKinsey alum Salil Sethi, OpenProsper is a block explorer app built on top of DeSo Blockchain, similar to what Etherscan is to Ethereum.
Founder Salil Sethi explains, "OpenProsper is primarily for creators on DeSo. It helps creators understand relationships, money-native blockchain experiences, and content strategy to be successful on DeSo. How we work has changed forever and the creator economy is only going to get bigger over time."
As content creators post on social media platforms, storage needs to increase over time. Thus, OpenProsper provides creators with a data dashboard they can use to optimize their content and messaging.
DeSo is the only blockchain designed to scale decentralized social media apps to 1B+ users with low transaction costs and a growing ecosystem of infinite-state applications (which are apps that need storage to scale with content growth). For example, the transaction fee per post on $DESO is $0.00003 and the cost of storing one Gigabyte of on-chain state is only $80. Compare this to storing one Gigabyte on Ethereum which costs $393,750,000 making the Ethereum chain costly to build and scale decentralized social media apps.
Additionally, DeSo recently pushed their revolutionary upgrade Hypersync live which lowers blockchain syncing time to just 20 minutes.
"I do think there's an opportunity for Twitter to essentially embrace using a decentralized protocol. And just in the way you've probably heard of DeFi which is decentralized finance, there's another one called DeSo, Decentralized Social Media which is another emerging area." Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase explained at the Milken Institute crypto pioneers event.
With Elon Musk finalizing his Twitter acquisition many are expecting a stark rise of decentralized social media apps.
The next big app set to launch on DeSo is DAODAO, which makes launching a DAO and fundraising as easy as creating a social media account.
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Road closed after vehicle accident in Topeka
Published: Jul. 3, 2022 at 2:26 PM CDT|Updated: 11 minutes ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Topeka Police Department has closed off eastbound traffic on 29th St. from Atwood Ave. after a single vehicle accident on Sunday afternoon.
According to TPD, the accident took place around 1:00 p.m. and the driver of the vehicle was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Due to live power lines in the area, all eastbound traffic on 29th St. from Atwood Ave. will be closed off to traffic for several hours.
We will update this story as more details become available.
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Police respond to shooting at July 4 parade in Chicago suburb
CHICAGO (AP) — Police are responding to a shooting at a July Fourth parade in a Chicago suburb, authorities said Monday. Authorities have not officially reported any casualties, but witnesses described seeing bloodied bodies apparently covered with blankets.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported that the parade began around 10 a.m. but was suddenly halted 10 minutes later after shots were fired. Several witnesses told the newspaper that they heard gunfire.
Hundreds of parade-goers — some visibly bloodied — fled the parade route, leaving behind chairs, baby strollers and blankets.
A Sun-Times reporter saw blankets placed over three bloodied bodies.
Police told people: “Everybody disperse, please. It is not safe to be here.”
Video shot by a Sun-Times journalist after the gunfire rang out shows a band on a float continuing to play as people run past, screaming. A photo posted to social media appeared to show pools of blood near upturned chairs in downtown Highland Park.
Gina Troiani and her son were lined up with his daycare class ready to walk onto the parade route when she heard a loud sound that she believed were fireworks — until hearing people yell about a shooter.
“We just start running in the opposite direction,” she told The Associated Press.
Her son, 5, was riding his bike decorated with red and blue curled ribbons. He and other children in the group held small American flags. The city said on it’s website that the festivities were to include a children’s bike and pet parade.
Troiani said she pushed her son’s bike, running through the neighborhood to get back to their car.
In a video that Troiani shot on her phone, some of the kids are visibly startled at the loud noise and then scramble to the side of the road as a siren wails nearby.
It was just sort of chaos,” she said. “There were people that got separated from their families, looking for them. Others just dropped their wagons, grabbed their kids and started running.”
Debbie Glickman, a Highland Park resident, said she was on a parade float with coworkers and the group was preparing to turn onto the main route when she saw people running from the area.
“People started saying: ‘There’s a shooter, there’s a shooter, there a shooter,’” Glickman told the Associated Press. “So we just ran. We just ran. It’s like mass chaos down there.”
She didn’t hear any noises or see anyone who appeared to be injured.
“I’m so freaked out,” she said. “It’s just so sad.”
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office said on Twitter that it is assisting Highland Park Police “with a shooting in the area of the Independence Day parade route.” The sheriff’s office directed an AP reporter to contact Highland Park Police. The Police Department said no one was immediately available to discuss the incident.
City leaders said on Twitter that “Police are responding to an incident in downtown Highland Park. Fourth Fest has been canceled. Please avoid downtown Highland Park. More information will be shared as it becomes available.”
The city said on its website that the parade would feature floats, marching bands, novelty groups, community entries and other special entertainment.
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LONDON (AP) — It’s not just a trifle. It’s history.
A 31-year-old copywriter’s seven-layer lemon Swiss roll and amaretti trifle beat 5,000 desserts in a U.K.-wide competition to become the official pudding — or dessert, if you’re not British — of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Contest organizers hope people throughout Britain will serve Jemma Melvin’s sunshine bright, sweet and sour concoction topped with whipped cream and crumbled cookies at neighborhood parties and backyard teas as part of the June 2-5 celebrations to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne.
Melvin, who is from Southport in northwest England, said her creation was inspired by both her grandmothers and the queen.
“This particular trifle is a tribute to three women: it’s my Gran, my Nan and the queen herself,” she said. “My grandma taught me to bake, she taught me all the elements, everything from scratch. My Nan’s signature dish was always a trifle; we used to call her the queen of trifles. And the queen had lemon posset at her wedding.”
The contest was announced in January as Jubilee organizers sought to find a modern-day counterpart to coronation chicken, the combination of cold poultry, mayonnaise and curry powder created for festivities on the day in 1953 when Elizabeth was crowned.
The winner was announced by the Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Charles’ wife, on Thursday night in a nationally televised broadcast on the BBC. Organizers later postedthe recipe online so anyone who wanted to try making it could have the precise directions to hand.
Melvin’s trifle defeated four other finalists: a passionfruit and thyme frangipane tart; Queen Elizabeth sponge cake, including a layer of jam made with the monarch’s favorite Dubonnet wine; a rose falooda cake incorporating the flavors of a traditional Indian dessert; and a “four nations” pudding featuring ingredients from around the country. | https://cw33.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/a-trifle-for-the-queen-uk-unveils-jubilee-pudding-winner/ | 2022-05-13T17:36:41Z |
Baby born at 11 ounces is smallest to live in hospital history
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - Born weighing just under 11 ounces, the smallest baby to ever survive in one Indiana hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit is finally headed home.
Monday was a day six and a half months in the making for Tim and Brooke Mead, of Niles, as they could bring home their first child, Audrey, from Memorial Hospital in South Bend, Indiana.
Audrey is the smallest baby ever born at the hospital to be discharged.
“It’s amazing to see her wiggling around so much and making all these noises. The progress that she’s made is just incredible,” Tim Mead said.
The Meads welcomed Audrey almost four months early due to her mother suffering from preeclampsia, a severe pregnancy complication, WNDU reports.
Audrey was born on Thanksgiving, weighing just under 11 ounces.
“If you look at our statistics from the National Institute of Child Health, they’re not even numbers for 300 gram babies,” said Dr. Basharat Buchh, Audrey’s NICU doctor. “Babies born at that early gestation, if they don’t...do well, they tell us right away in the first few days of life.”
Brooke Mead, an employee at Memorial, said she relied on faith to get through the uncertainty.
“Honestly, I prayed every day. I prayed to God every day that she would make it,” she said, through tears. “We knew, like, that the first week was crucial. But even, you know, like that first week, she was moving around - like swinging her arms, kicking her feet. She was very active. And that gave us hope.”
The nursing team will miss Audrey, who weighs almost 11 pounds now.
“While she’s been here, we would always we call her ‘The Secret-Keeper,’” said Emily Fredericks, NICU nurse. “We would come in and tell her all kinds of things. We’d come in and hold her, read her stories. She knows all the drama, all the gossip, so we’re really, really gonna miss her around here.”
Seeing Audrey’s “graduation day” is why Buchh and his colleagues do what they do.
“Not everybody that is born in the NICU, or taken care of in the NICU, does well. But it’s moments like these, the days that kids like that go home that keep us going, give us immense joy,” Buchh said.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RhoVac AB ("RhoVac"), a Swedish cancer immunotherapy company, announces today on May 10th, 2022, that its phase IIb study in prostate cancer, BRaVac, has reached "Database Lock". This means that all data from the trial is now finally reported, cleaned and "locked" in the data base. The next step will be analysis to produce the results. As previously stated, RhoVac anticipates having its primary results no later than at the beginning of June.
RhoVac started the clinical phase IIb trial (BRaVac) with the company's drug candidate, RV001, (onilcamotide) late 2019, in prostate cancer patients with a biochemical recurrence (a rise in PSA) after local curative intent therapy. In November of 2020, RhoVac was awarded Fast Track Designation by the FDA for its drug candidate in this cancer indication. Patient recruitment was conducted in six European countries (Finland, Sweden, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Germany) and in the United States. Recruitment ended in September 2021, when 180 patients had been included. The objective of the study is to show that onilcamotide can significantly prevent or delay disease progression in these patients, something for which no standard therapy is available today. Interim safety reviews have been conducted and no unexpected adverse reactions have been identified, confirming the anticipated safety of the drug. Now, the study has reached "Database Lock" with only a few weeks to go until the primary results are known. All results, including subgroup analyses, will be available in the summer.
CEO, Anders Månsson, comments: "BRaVac started at the end of 2019, and much of the study has been run in pandemic conditions, which it has taken extraordinary efforts to overcome. We are happy to conclude that we have overcome all obstacles, that our intermediary safety reviews have all been positive, and now, after database lock, we await with excitement and anticipation what the primary results will bring in terms of efficacy."
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AUSTIN, Texas, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trace, the only game film platform that automatically edits and delivers personalized moments for each player, today announced it has closed a $47M Series C round of funding, bringing its total funding to $65.2M. Pelion Venture Partners led the round with Lakestar, Toba Capital, and NextGen VP participation.
The sports technology industry is booming and is projected to grow from $17.9B to $40.2B by 2026. In addition, the youth sports market is projected to reach $77.6B by 2026 as travel teams gain popularity and families begin to enjoy the quality time that weekend sporting events offer.
Parents, players, and coaches want to quickly see their moments from a game without rewatching hours of game footage while fumbling around with editing software. Trace is the only solution that automatically records and delivers personalized moments for each player hours after a game–no more sifting through video footage, marking timestamps, and manually stitching together clips.
Using Trace's wide-angle camera and proprietary GPS sensors, Trace captures the entirety of a game without missing a moment. Once quickly set up, the camera can be left to capture the game all on its own, eliminating the need for anyone to watch the game behind a recording device. Using advanced AI, Trace analyzes all of the footage and performance metrics to edit and assemble a personalized game experience.
"Players want to see themselves, and parents want to safeguard their children's best life moments. We let Sarah, and her parents, watch all of her plays in the game without any additional work or effort. You don't have to record, you don't have to do any editing, Sarah can sit back after the game and watch from her perspective, moment to moment, memory to memory. We're extremely proud to serve more than a million athletes today and eliminate the barriers to capturing and editing game footage. And whether you're looking to play in college or just getting started with a sport, Trace will keep the moments that matter most to you one click away," said David Lokshin, CEO of Trace.
"We created Trace to deliver personalized moments to each player without any additional work from anyone on your team. We're extremely proud to serve over 1.4M athletes today and eliminate the barriers to capturing and editing game footage. And whether you're looking to play in college or just getting started with a sport, Trace will keep the moments that matter most to you one click away," said David Lokshin, CEO of Trace.
For athletes looking to improve their game, coaches looking for more support, or even parents who want to relive their child's game—Trace is short personalized videos you can't wait to watch.
"David and I have built a friendship over the past few years and I was really impressed with the growth of the business from a product, engagement, and revenue standpoint in 2021. The team's vision for what Trace will become is huge. We're thrilled to be leading this round to fuel Trace's impressive growth," said Jeff Kearl, General Partner at Pelion Venture Partners.
Trace plans to use the funds to continue product innovation and plans to expand availability to even more sports in 2022. In addition, Trace will use the funds to add to its world-class team, adding over one hundred positions by year-end.
Trace currently supports Soccer, Baseball, and Softball in the US. To learn more about Trace Soccer, please visit Traceup.com/soccer. To learn more about Baseball and Softball, please visit Traceup.com/baseball.
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ORANGE, Calif., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) has recruited dual-boarded neonatologist and child neurologist Dr. Terrie Inder, internationally known for her clinical and scholarly innovation, leadership, and mentoring, to the newly created position of chair of neonatal research.
Currently chair of the department of pediatric newborn medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a major teaching hospital at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Dr. Inder will lead the development of the Center of Neonatal Research at CHOC starting Sept. 1, 2022.
Her appointment highlights CHOC's mission to advance research and clinical outcomes for children and families, said Dr. Vijay Dhar, division chief of neonatology for CHOC Specialists.
"She joins a stellar team of clinicians," Dr. Dhar said. "Together, we will make CHOC the leading destination for neonatal- perinatal care, research and training."
Dr. Inder, an expert in the development of the newborn brain, aims to build on her track record of clinical and academic excellence at CHOC, where she'll lead efforts to advance scientific studies and improve clinical outcomes in neonatal- perinatal medicine.
"CHOC has a very dedicated group of clinicians who are hungry to make a difference, and I hope, with true humility and privilege, to be able to help them a little bit," said Dr. Inder, adding that she found CHOC's leaders to be "phenomenally grounded, aspirational and hard-working."
The Center of Neonatal Research at CHOC will advance scientific studies and improve clinical outcomes in the field of neonatal-perinatal medicine. In collaboration with UC Irvine, Dr. Inder will coordinate participation at conferences, develop doctoral and post-doctoral programs, recruit research scientists, and provide research opportunities for residents and fellows.
She also will mentor a staff of 80 neonatologists based at CHOC, UCI and a network of neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and birthing centers totaling more than 300 NICU beds and nearly 50,000 births a year.
"I am thrilled that Dr. Inder will be joining us," said Dr. Terry Sanger, CHOC's chief scientific officer. "Her research has been foundational to the understanding of early brain development and disorders of neonates, including the origins of cerebral palsy. She will be a tremendous contributor to children's health in Southern California, and I am excited to think that the resources of CHOC, UCI and Orange County will be able to support and grow her groundbreaking research."
A native of New Zealand, Dr. Inder started practicing medicine in the U.S. in 2005 after being recruited by St. Louis Children's Hospital, the pediatric teaching hospital for Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo.
There, she founded the Washington University Neonatal Development Research team, which has grown to 55 investigators, and succeeded in securing National Institutes of Health funding to establish the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center.
Dr. Inder joined Brigham and Women's Hospital in 2013 as its first chair of pediatric newborn medicine. There, she assisted with rebuilding a new clinical facility with a novel design system optimizing differing models of care, established a neonatal transport program and built a consolidated network, and established more than 50 clinical care pathways and created programs in fetal care and specialized clinical care for neonatal neurocritical care.
At Brigham and Women's, Dr. Inder also increased research funding by tenfold, grew her department's research faculty, and opened a state-of-the-art NICU with single-family rooms and a first-of-its-kind, dedicated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system that expanded neurocritical care for babies.
Her department at Brigham and Women's now educates more than 200 trainees in pediatric and neonatal medicine with a commitment to national and international teaching.
While practicing in Australia between 2001 and 2005, Dr. Inder also became known for innovation. She founded an MRI facility at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute at Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne. The novel imaging center required cooperation across multiple departments, research institutes and with the regional and state government.
Recruited by several leading pediatric healthcare systems during her time in Boston, Dr. Inder said she decided to join CHOC because of its people and promise of significant growth in its clinical, research and educational missions.
"I think with the investments being made now, CHOC is on a steady upward trajectory," Dr. Inder said.
With more than 200 peer-reviewed articles published, Dr. Inder's primary research is targeted at understanding the timing, mechanisms and impact of cerebral injury and altered cerebral development in infants at high risk for adverse neurodevelopmental outcome, including the prematurely born infant, the sick term-born infant, and the infant with congenital heart disease.
"All of my research efforts are designed to be immediately translatable to impact care," Dr. Inder said.
One of her many side projects includes working as an editor on the seventh-edition of a landmark work in her field, "Volpe's Neurology of the Newborn," written by Dr. Joseph Volpe, a mentor.
Outside of work, Dr. Inder, who has three adult children, enjoys gardening and spending time her mini-Goldendoodle, Oscar.
CHOC, a pediatric healthcare system based in Orange County, California, is committed to being a leading destination for children's health by providing exceptional and innovative care. Our growing community includes two state-of-the-art hospitals in Orange and Mission Viejo and a regional network of primary and specialty care clinics serving children and families in four counties. CHOC offers several clinical programs of excellence providing the highest levels of care for the most serious pediatric illnesses and injuries, both physical and mental. Our research and innovation institutes are focused on translating real patient needs into real-world treatments so every child can live the healthiest and happiest life possible. To learn more, visit www.choc.org.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Selena Gomez joined first lady Jill Biden and U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy at the White House on Wednesday for a conversation about youth mental health.
The singer/actor has been public about her struggles and revealed in 2020 that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Biden, Murthy and Gomez held a conversation in the East Room with several young people, including a mother and a recent Rutgers college graduate, who shared how they had improved their mental outlook.
The strategies they shared ranged from going through multiple therapists to find one who is right for you to using baking as a way to encourage conversation with others facing similar challenges.
“Mental health is very personal for me and I hope that by using my platform to share my own story … I can help others feel less alone,” Gomez said.
Biden praised the participants for sharing.
“It takes courage to, you know, be honest about the struggles that you faced and to tell your stories.,” the first lady said. “And it takes courage to understand that your voice can make a difference and to show your creativity and talents, you know, to all of the world.”
Murthy said open conversation will help change “hearts and minds” and help remove the stigma associated with mental health.
MTV Entertainment sponsored the conversation in advance of the second Mental Health Action Day on Thursday. | https://cw33.com/health/ap-health/jill-biden-selena-gomez-lead-talk-on-youth-mental-health/ | 2022-05-19T08:44:57Z |
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Former Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska was sentenced Tuesday to two years of probation, a $25,000 fine and community service for lying to federal authorities about an illegal campaign contribution, on the same day that voters in his district were deciding on his replacement in a special election.
Fortenberry, 61, sat quietly as a federal judge read the sentence in a Los Angeles courtroom. The former congressman resigned in March shortly after a California jury found him guilty in the corruption case. He has maintained his innocence and said he plans to appeal.
Fortenberry chose not to address the court. Judge Stanley Blumenfeld Jr. said Fortenberry “turned a blind eye and a deaf ear” to indications that the source of his donations was illicit.
“Mr. Fortenberry chose the wrong path,” Blumenfeld said. “He decided to respond with dishonesty rather than honesty, and lying, especially in this context, is certainly a serious matter.”
But the judge said he was convinced that Fortenberry’s actions were not representative of how he normally behaves. He said Fortenberry was generally “a man of exceptional character,” a view shared even by prosecution witnesses. When Blumenfeld wished him luck, Fortenberry said, “Thank you.”
Fortenberry later said he planned to appeal, arguing that prosecutors never should have brought the case and accusing them of taking advantage of his trust.
“This has been very traumatic and we’ve got a way to go,” he said outside the courthouse after the sentencing. “But I am grateful that … the judge recognized that the pattern of what I wanted to do with my life was simply to serve in public office and to try to help people.”
Fortenberry said he had been anxious about the hearing’s outcome. Gesturing to his surroundings in downtown Los Angeles, he said, “We’re in a very strange place. It’s not Nebraska.”
Prosecutors were seeking six months in prison for Fortenberry, while his attorneys had requested probation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mack Jenkins said prosecutors disagreed with the decision not to impose prison time, but noted the judge’s comments endorsing the jury’s decision.
In delivering the sentence, which includes 320 hours community service, Blumenfeld cited cases of more significant public corruption that led to prison sentences of about a year. He said he didn’t think incarceration would serve a purpose in this case.
After the sentencing, Fortenberry approached the judge and spoke with him privately at the bench. Fortenberry said outside court that he thanked Blumenfeld for reading all the letters of support people sent and for noting his ambition in holding office.
The sentence was handed down as a special election was taking place to fill the rest of his term, which ends in January. Republican state Sen. Mike Flood faces a fellow legislator, Democrat Patty Pansing Brooks, in the GOP-leaning eastern Nebraska district.
Prosecutors alleged Fortenberry lied to federal agents multiple times about $30,000 in illegal campaign contributions he received from a Nigerian billionaire at a 2016 fundraiser in Los Angeles. Federal law prohibits donations from foreigners.
At his trial, prosecutors played phone recordings between Fortenberry and a donor-turned-informant, who warned the congressman that the donations had likely been funneled to him from Gilbert Chagoury, the Nigerian billionaire of Lebanese descent. Fortenberry’s attorneys later argued that he didn’t hear the warning due to bad cellphone reception.
In the special election, Flood appears to have a strong edge in the district, which includes Lincoln, parts of suburban Omaha and dozens of smaller, more conservative towns. The district has nearly 68,000 more Republicans than Democrats and hasn’t elected a Democrat to Congress since 1964.
Republicans are also outpacing Democrats in early-ballot turnout for the special election, according to the Nebraska secretary of state’s office. In most elections, early absentee votes tend to favor Democrats.
For voters, a switch from Fortenberry to Flood wouldn’t make much difference in terms of policy. Both have described themselves as strong conservatives who support tax cuts and oppose abortion.
“I think it’s fair to say that their votes would line up probably 90% of the time,” said Sam Fischer, a retired Republican campaign consultant.
Fischer said Flood, like Fortenberry, tends to be a behind-the-scenes player who’s more interested in policy than seeking attention. Flood has played to this perception in campaign ads, describing himself as a “nerd” who will “get things done.”
“His style is not to be a showhorse, but a workhorse,” Fischer said.
Pansing Brooks has said she would also promote the district’s interests in Congress and work across party lines.
“I’ve said one-party rule isn’t working. We have to come together,” she said during a televised debate with Flood.
Flood and Pansing Brooks will face each other again in the November general election to decide who takes the seat for the next congressional term.
Fortenberry’s spiral began after he accepted political donations from Chagoury during a 2016 fundraiser in Los Angeles. Chagoury funneled the money to Fortenberry’s campaign through strawmen. Chagoury’s contributions to Fortenberry and other politicians triggered a federal investigation.
Fortenberry “did not engage in this wrongdoing out of an urgent financial need or because of an aberrant life circumstance,” prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memo. “Rather, he was motivated by plain, selfish desire to cling to his status as a powerful federal official.”
Fortenberry’s trial was the first of a sitting congressman since Rep. Jim Traficant, D-Ohio, was convicted of bribery and other felony charges in 2002.
Fortenberry’s attorney, John Littrell, argued that the conviction has already devastated his client’s life by forcing him to resign from Congress, stripping away his right to vote and own firearms, and putting his federal pension at risk.
“The painful collateral consequences of this conviction have already achieved any deterrence that this prosecution could achieve,” Littrell wrote in a counter brief. “There is no danger to the public. Mr. Fortenberry has led an extraordinary and rigorously law-abiding life over his sixty-one years. He will continue to do good for others.”
Fortenberry’s departure creates an unusual situation in the district, which was redrawn by state lawmakers in September as part of the once-a-decade redistricting process.
The new districts went into effect immediately after lawmakers and Gov. Pete Ricketts approved them, which changed the area and some of the constituents that Fortenberry represented, said Cindi Allen, a spokeswoman for Nebraska Secretary of State John Gale.
Flood and Pansing Brooks are running in the new district, with some new constituents that weren’t eligible to vote for Fortenberry during his last election in 2020.
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As Stewart's ramps up hiring, shift to become first employee-owned EMS company in New England targeted for end of year
MEREDITH, N.H., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stewart's Ambulance Service, provider of emergency medical services and medical transportation in New Hampshire and Maine, is hiring for growth and working to become employee-owned by the end of year, under an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) structure unique among EMS companies in New England.
ESOPs are tax-exempt trusts that allow employees to acquire beneficial ownership in the places they work without investing their own funds. All full-time Stewart's employees will be eligible to participate, with stakes that increase with tenure and seniority. As Stewart's continues hiring for significant growth opportunities, new full-time employees also may participate in the plan, adding to a range of benefits that includes scholarship funds, referral bonuses, and innovative programs that pay candidates while they train to become EMTs.
"EMS has been a critical and unsung healthcare hero of the past two years," said Justin Van Etten, executive chairman of Stewart's Ambulance Service. "Stewart's move to employee ownership recognizes and values the sacrifices and professional excellence of our employees with both equity and voice. It's never been a better time to work at Stewart's."
Employee-owned companies consistently have both higher employee engagement and greater job security. Employee ownership also helps lower turnover, ensure continuity of high-quality service, and generate jobs and business value which stays local. Municipal partners, institutional partners and the general public all benefit from having a stronger EMS and medical transportation partner in the community.
"EMTs are a tight-knit group, but at the end of the day, we're usually working for someone else's family," said Dave Ledoux, longtime EMT and Stewart's Seacoast Operations Manager. "I'm ready to start working for my own family, and I look forward to being part of a company where I get a say in how we work and how we grow."
"Stewart's has been setting the standard in high-quality EMS service for more than 41 years," said Stacy Meier, executive director of Stewart's. "We are proud to be the first EMS company in New England that is giving its employee-owners a better way to make EMS a lifetime career."
Transformative Healthcare, which currently operates Stewart's under its medical transportation arm, will continue to be an investor in the company and provide innovative healthcare logistics, technology, and strategic support. The Menke Group, the nation's preeminent ESOP advisor, is engaged to help design and implement the Stewart's plan.
About Stewart's Ambulance Service
Stewart's Ambulance Service has been a leader in providing quality 911 and intra-facility medical transportation for more than 41 years. One of the largest companies of its kind in northern New England, Stewart's serves more than 50,000 patients per year in New Hampshire and Maine. Find out more at: https://www.stewartsambulance.com/
About Transformative Healthcare
Transformative Healthcare is a preeminent provider of healthcare logistics and technology to support innovations in data-driven Emergency Medical Services. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the company rapidly spun up the first mass testing and vaccination sites in Massachusetts, delivering more than 800,000 vaccinations and performing more than 1.8 million tests. Transformative Healthcare continues to invest in innovative mobile healthcare solutions that bring care when and where it's needed. For more information: https://transformativehc.com/
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Canton launches summer youth employment program
CANTON – The city is offering a Subsidized Summer Youth Employment Pilot Program, partnering with Simply Youth, a local nonprofit, to connect local employers with summer employment needs with Canton’s youth looking for summer work.
Canton is acting as a clearinghouse in connecting local employers with summer employment needs with Canton high school students, ages 15-18.
The city will reimburse employers 50% of the hourly wage, with a maximum reimbursement of $7.50 per hour for a maximum of 40 hours per week for up to 10 weeks.
Simply Youth will identify city students for the program and will connect employers with students. The students must be a Canton city resident to be eligible.
Students and their families will be responsible for providing transportation to and from the workplace. SARTA bus passes may be provided, where needed. Simply Youth will also provide a two-day instructional camp to teach employment soft skills as a part of the program.
School adjourns for the summer on May 27. Those interested can email Simply Youth, attention Terrance Jones, at simplyouth330@gmail.com. Employers who are interested in hiring summer help should email the City at YouthEmployment@cantonohio.gov as soon as possible.
Mayor Thomas Bernabei says, “This is a great opportunity for employers to obtain summer help and at the same time have an opportunity to hire and train youth employees on a longer-term basis. It gives our youth exposure to the workplace and to earn money during their summer break.” | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/2022/05/19/canton-announces-subsidized-summer-youth-employment-pilot-program/9823768002/ | 2022-05-19T20:55:38Z |
KU experts to host discussion panel in wake of Roe v. Wade decision
LAWRENCE, Kan. (WIBW) - Experts at the University of Kansas will host a discussion panel in the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of the Roe v. Wade decision.
The University of Kansas says scholars from the School of law will host a panel discussion to explore the ramifications of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson which affects access to abortion services.
KU noted that “Legal Perspectives on Dobbs v. Jackson and Beyond” will be held between 3 and 4 p.m. on Friday, July 8, via Zoom. It said the open forum has been coordinated by University Governance, the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging, The Commons and the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
The University indicated that the discussion will be open to the public.
KU said panelists Richard levy, J.B. Smith Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, and Kyle Velte, professor of law, will join University Senate leaders as moderators in a conversation that will provide background on the law and will address potential future legal developments.
According to KU, community members will be able to take part in a question-and-answer session as part of the discussion.
“We have heard from many community members regarding the Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade. We understand the extraordinary impact of the decision both nationally and locally,” said Ani Kokobobo, University Senate president and chair of the Department of Slavic, German & Eurasian Studies.
The virtual open forum will be viewable as a live stream HERE.
To take part in the Q&A, users must access the discussion via Zoom.
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Social media model arrested in Hawaii
HILO, Hawaii (AP) — Law enforcement in Hawaii on Wednesday arrested social media model Courtney Clenney on a charge of second-degree murder with a deadly weapon.
Hawaii County police said in a statement they assisted the U.S. Marshals Service as they arrested the 26-year-old in Laupahoehoe, which is on the Big Island. Officers used an arrest warrant issued by Miami-Dade County, Florida.
She’s being held at the East Hawaii Detention Center while she waits for her initial court appearance in Hilo District Court on Thursday, police said.
The police statement gave no details about the accusations against her, but the Miami Herald reported that Clenney is accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend in April.
Her Miami defense lawyer, Frank Prieto, told the Miami Herald that she was in Hawaii while in rehabilitation for substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder.
“I’m completely shocked, especially since we were cooperating with the investigation and offered to voluntarily surrender her if she were charged,” Prieto said. “We look forward to clearing her name in court.”
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Topeka coaches and parents agree with Supreme Court’s ruling on Coach Kennedy Case
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -When Coach Joseph Kennedy, who was a former football coach at Bremerton School District was put on leave because he would kneel and pray after games, he fought back and said he should have the right to display his faith.
On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed, saying he is protected by the constitution.
Local coaches and parents of athletes say, they side with the Supreme Court.
“I think that’s perfectly fine. I think that is what is wrong with a lot of things today, is the kids and the adults are not allowed to pray when they chose to pray. If people don’t want to pray, that is their opinion, but I do think it’s wrong to say you can’t pray,” said Serena Anderson.
Kennedy started off praying by himself on the 50-yard line and as time went on, his students joined him, which led to prayers in the locker room.
In its decision, the Supreme Court’s majority said there was no evidence Kennedy coerced his students to pray.
Nicholas dowell, who coaches a Topeka youth baseball team says if it wasn’t forced, he doesn’t see an issue.
“As long as he wasn’t requiring the athletes to be apart of the prayer. I don’t see a problem with it or restricting somebody’s rights just based on their actions and compelling someone to do that would be wrong,” he said.
He says sometimes having prayer on the field can teach athletes more than just baseball.
“I wanted to teach leadership on the field so it’s one of those things where I asked kids “Is this what you want to do, do you want to lead, go and do it”. After about the first week it was kid led, I was there obviously, but so it was just kind of something neat at the end we came as a team.”
The dissent argued the coercion was implied and the practice blurs the line between separation of church and state.
But some say, there shouldn’t be a line.
“I think it agrees with free speech and religious expression, he wasn’t forcing anyone to join him, he has the right to go pray anywhere he wants to I think anytime. We used to have school prayer in school actually and now they act like its some type of evil or something, I think that’s ridiculous. I think it’s a wonderful decision and I’m glad they came down with that,” said Mark Pierce.
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TUCSON Ariz., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Keys Inc. successfully launched the Keys App to Certified Locksmith and Security Professionals at the ALOA Locksmith & Security Expo 22 and is proud to have won the 2022 Best New Product Award; Featured on the Locksmith Ledger. Look forward to coverage in Keynotes Magazine and on the ALOA Website.
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- Enterprise Solutions revenue achieves modest growth despite lockdown measures in China –
- Enterprise Solutions revenue contribution hit a historic high of 36% –
HONG KONG, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited ("iClick" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: ICLK), a leading enterprise and marketing cloud platform in China that empowers worldwide brands with full-stack consumer lifecycle solutions, today announced unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Jian "T.J." Tang, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of iClick, said, "In order to effectively combat the latest resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic, various regions in China were operating under restrictive measures or in lockdown during the second quarter of 2022, which inevitably had an adverse impact on our performance. Conjunctively, the unpredictable macro environment continued to drive conservatism on advertising spending and promotional activities. As a result, the Company's total revenue declined by 51% year-on-year, primarily as a result of a 62% year-on-year decrease in our Marketing Solutions revenue, and recorded a goodwill impairment of US$24.9 million in the second quarter of 2022 for its Marketing Solutions reporting unit, both of which contributed to the net loss for the quarter.
On a positive note, the Company achieved the modest growth in Enterprise Solutions revenue, which accounted for a historically high 36% of total revenue for the second quarter of 2022, despite the lockdown restricting the implementation of our go-to-market strategy.
Looking to the future, we believe our value proposition to top-tier brand clients remains intact, and we expect better performance once overall market sentiment and client operations recover. We believe our strategic wind-down of the Marketing Solutions business will enable the Company to better align its resources to continue investing in Enterprise Solutions. With the backdrop of the digital transformation trend in China, we also expect to further develop our SaaS+X business model, with the aim of driving long-term growth and enlarging our overall market share."
Second Quarter 2022 Results:
Revenue for the second quarter of 2022 was US$38.1 million, compared with US$78.0 million for the second quarter of 2021, mainly due to the decrease in revenue from Marketing Solutions, which was partially offset by the slight increase in revenue from Enterprise Solutions.
Revenue from Marketing Solutions declined to US$24.3 million for the second quarter of 2022, compared with US$64.6 million for the second quarter of 2021, primarily because we strategically reduced lower margin and higher risk businesses within the Marketing Solutions segment. The decline in revenue from Marketing Solutions was also due to the tightened regulation targeting certain industries in which our clients operate, which led to a broad-based advertising market slowdown in China, and the strict anti-pandemic measures implemented in China.
Revenue from Enterprise Solutions slightly grew to US$13.8 million for the second quarter of 2022, from US$13.4 million for the second quarter of 2021.
Gross profit for the second quarter of 2022 was US$9.3 million, compared with US$24.3 million for the second quarter of 2021, mainly due to the decline in Marketing Solutions segment. Gross profit margin decreased to 24.3% for the second quarter of 2022 from 31.2% for the second quarter of 2021, primarily as a result of the slowdown of broad-based advertising market in China, and the strict anti-pandemic measures implemented in China.
Total operating expenses were US$26.8 million for the second quarter of 2022, compared with US$23.4 million for the second quarter of 2021, primarily due to an additional expected credit loss provision, as a result of the volatile business environment with resurgence of COVID-19 and lockdown conditions.
Operating loss was US$17.5 million for the second quarter of 2022, compared with an operating income of US$0.9 million for the second quarter of 2021. This decline was as a result of the decrease in gross profit and an additional expected credit loss provision.
Goodwill impairment of US$24.9 million was recorded in the second quarter of 2022 for Marketing Solutions reporting unit, primarily due to the volatile digital advertising industry, which resulted in a shortfall between the carrying value and the estimated fair value of this reporting unit as of June 30, 2022.
Net loss totalled US$45.8 million for the second quarter of 2022, compared with net income of US$0.6 million for the second quarter of 2021, primarily due to the goodwill impairment incurred, decrease in gross profit and an additional expected credit loss provision.
Net loss attributable to the Company's shareholders per basic and diluted ADS for the second quarter of 2022 were US$0.45, compared with a net income attributable to the Company's shareholders per basic and diluted ADS of US$0.02 for the second quarter of 2021.
Adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter of 2022 was a loss of US$13.2 million, compared with earnings of US$6.1 million for the second quarter of 2021. For a reconciliation of the Company's adjusted EBITDA from net (loss)/income, its most comparable GAAP measure, please refer to "Unaudited Reconciliations of GAAP and Non-GAAP Results."
Adjusted net loss for the second quarter of 2022 was US$15.0 million, compared with an adjusted net income of US$2.6 million in the second quarter of 2021. For a reconciliation of the Company's adjusted net (loss)/income from net (loss)/income, its most comparable GAAP measure, please refer to "Unaudited Reconciliations of GAAP and Non-GAAP Results."
Gross billing[2] was US$58.1 million for the second quarter of 2022, compared with US$194.2 million for the second quarter of 2021, primarily as a result of the decline in gross billing from Marketing Solutions segment.
As of June 30, 2022, the Company had cash and cash equivalents, time deposits and restricted cash of US$83.5 million, compared with US$88.7 million as of December 31, 2021.
Share Repurchase Program
On December 22, 2021, the Company announced a share repurchase program in which it may purchase its own ADSs with an aggregate value of up to US$20.0 million from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. As of June 30, 2022, the aggregate value of purchased shares was approximately US$7.2 million.
Conference Call
The Company will host an earnings conference call at 8:00 AM U.S. Eastern Time on August 25, 2022 (8:00 PM Beijing/Hong Kong time on August 25, 2022). Participants may join the call through either of the below methods:
1. Dial-in to the conference call:
Participants are asked to pre-register for the call via the following link:
Upon registering, participants will be provided with dial-in numbers, Passcode and unique access PIN.
2. Webcast:
Participants may also join a live and archived webcast of the call through the below link:
A live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available on iClick's investor relations website at https://ir.i-click.com.
A webcast replay of the call will be available approximately two hours after the end of the call through August 25, 2023. The webcast replay can be accessed through the above link.
About iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited
Founded in 2009, iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited (NASDAQ: ICLK) is a leading enterprise and marketing cloud platform in China. iClick's mission is to empower worldwide brands to unlock the enormous market potential of smart retail. With its leading proprietary technologies, iClick's full suite of data-driven solutions helps brands drive significant business growth and profitability throughout the full consumer lifecycle. Headquartered in Hong Kong, iClick currently operates in eleven locations across Asia and Europe. For more information, please visit https://ir.i-click.com.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The Company uses adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net (loss)/income, and diluted adjusted net (loss)/income per ADS, each a non-GAAP financial measure, in evaluating the Company's operating results and for financial and operational decision-making purposes. The Company believes that adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net (loss)/income, and diluted adjusted net (loss)/income per ADS help identify underlying trends in the Company's business that could otherwise be distorted by the effect of the expenses and gains that the Company includes in net (loss)/income. The Company believes that adjusted EBITDA and adjusted net (loss)/income provide useful information about the Company's operating results, enhance the overall understanding of the Company's past performance and future prospects, assess operating performance on a consistent basis, and allow for greater visibility with respect to key metrics used by the Company's management in its financial and operational decision-making.
Adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net (loss)/income, and diluted adjusted net (loss)/income per ADS should not be considered in isolation or construed as an alternative to net (loss)/income or any other measure of performance or as an indicator of the Company's operating performance. Investors are encouraged to review the historical non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures. Adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net (loss)/income, and diluted adjusted net (loss)/income per ADS presented here may not be comparable to similarly titled measures presented by other companies. Other companies may calculate similarly titled measures differently, limiting their usefulness as comparative measures to the Company's data. The Company encourages investors and others to review the Company's financial information in its entirety and not rely on a single financial measure.
For more information on these non-GAAP financial measures, please see the table captioned "Unaudited Reconciliations of GAAP and Non-GAAP results" set forth at the end of this press release.
These non-GAAP financial measures were presented with the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures together for facilitating a more comprehensive understanding of operating performance between periods.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements, including those related to the Company's business strategies, operations and financial performance. These statements constitute "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "confident" and similar statements. Such statements are based upon management's current expectations and current market and operating conditions and relate to events that involve known or unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the Company's control. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: the Company's fluctuations in growth; its success in its strategic shift away from Marketing Solutions to focus on Enterprise Solutions; its success in implementing its SaaS + X business model; its success in structuring a CRM & Marketing Cloud platform; relative percentage of its gross billing recognized as revenue under the gross and net models; its ability to retain existing clients or attract new ones; its ability to retain content distribution channels and negotiate favourable contractual terms; market competition; market acceptance of online marketing technology solutions and enterprise solutions; effectiveness of its algorithms and data engines; its ability to collect and use data from various sources; ability to integrate and realize synergies from acquisitions, investments or strategic partnership; the duration of the COVID-19 outbreak and its potential impact on the Company's business and financial performance; fluctuations in foreign exchange rates; general economic conditions in China and other jurisdictions where the Company operates; and the regulatory landscape in China and other jurisdictions where the Company operates. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the Company's annual report on Form 20-F and other filings with the SEC. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of this press release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
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Unaudited Reconciliations of GAAP and Non-GAAP Results
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Adjusted EBITDA represents net (loss)/income before (i) depreciation and amortization, (ii) interest expense, (iii) interest income, (iv) income tax (benefit)/expense, (v) share-based compensation, (vi) goodwill impairment, (vii) other losses/(gains), net, (viii) convertible notes and shares issuance cost, (ix) net loss attributable to non-controlling interests, (x) share of losses from an equity investee, and (xi) cost related to new business setup or acquisitions.
The table below sets forth a reconciliation of the Company's adjusted EBITDA from net (loss)/income for the periods indicated:
Adjusted net (loss)/income represents net (loss)/income before (i) share-based compensation, (ii) goodwill impairment, (iii) other losses/(gains), net, (iv) convertible notes and shares issuance cost, (v) net loss attributable to non-controlling interests, and (vi) share of losses from an equity investee, and (vii) cost related to new business setup or acquisitions. There is no material tax effects on these non-GAAP adjustments.
The table below sets forth a reconciliation of the Company's adjusted net (loss)/income from net (loss)/income for the periods indicated:
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TAIPEI, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Taiwanese start-up Mbran Filtra, has been recognized as a 2022 CES Innovation Award Honoree for its world's smallest water filter. With the pandemic's end still nowhere in sight, outdoor activities such as hiking and camping have exploded in popularity, and now adventure seekers have a revolutionary product to help them access potable water anywhere. The start-up will be showcasing its technology at 2022 CES.
"Mbran Filtra's water filter is just the size of a person's thumb and weighs just 21 grams, allowing it to slip into any pocket and be used in a myriad of activities such as trail runs, mountain biking, hiking, camping, or any kind of travel exploration. It allows anyone access to safe drinking water virtually anywhere," says Dr. Hsu-Hsien Chang, CEO of Mbran Filtra.
Small footprint, big features
Mbran Filtra's water filter blocks out bacteria, microorganisms, and microplastics, which is considered a necessity for any filter and it can be used without any electricity, making it very convenient for traveling. And finally, it has a high flow rate of 1.2 liters per minute, giving its users plenty of drinking water in a fast and efficient manner.
Unique process
The innovation of this product lies in the manufacturing process, which Mbran Filtra says utilizes polyethersulfone polymer while building multifunctional properties or layers into the pore structure of the hollow fiber membrane. The membrane itself is available in different sizes (0.04 - 0.4 um), allowing it to be used in various applications.
Another unique feature is the filter's highly asymmetric pore structure. Compared to traditional filters with symmetric membranes, this design offers a higher dirt loading capacity, providing better filtration performance and higher flow rates.
With this design, the portable filter has been proven to block out bacteria such as E. Coli with up to 99.9% effectiveness, reducing the colony forming unit (CFU) levels per 100 milliliters from 5700 to less than 1 in a E.Coli test conducted by one of the world's leading testing and certification companies SGS.
The thumb-sized filter also has a total filtration capacity of up to 1,000 liters depending on water quality, giving its users a durable and reliable portable filter which they can use for a long time.
An eye towards sustainability
Aside from class-leading features, the portable filter also adheres to Mbran Filtra's commitment to sustainable manufacturing. It uses environmentally friendly solvents, non-toxic materials, and green manufacturing processes. The filter's long-life cycle also ensures that it has the least impact possible to the environment, and its indirect effect of reducing the use of bottled water means it's a product that boosts sustainability efforts.
About Mbran Filtra
Established in 2019 in Taiwan, Mbran Filtra focuses on the research, manufacture, and production of filtration materials and systems. It produces a broad range of microporous membranes for use in different industries, such as hydrophobic and hydrophilic membranes made from polyethersulfone (PES), polyamide (Nylon), polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), and polypropylene (PP), among others. Aside from supplying these membranes into existing filtration products and systems, Mbran Filtra also offers its own microfiltration membrane products through its asymmetrical pore structure technology.
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NEW YORK, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Juan Monteverde, founder and managing partner of the class action firm Monteverde & Associates PC (the "M&A Class Action Firm"), a national securities firm rated Top 50 in the 2018-2021 ISS Securities Class Action Services Report and headquartered at the Empire State Building in New York City, is investigating Radius Health, Inc. (RDUS), relating to its proposed acquisition by Gurnet Point Capital and Patient Square Capital via a tender offer. Under the terms of the agreement, RDUS shareholders will receive $10.00 in cash plus one contingent value right worth $1.00 per share they own. Click here for more information: https://www.monteverdelaw.com/case/radius-health-inc. It is free and there is no cost or obligation to you.
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Popular cryptocurrency tax software provider has expanded its offerings to support tax reporting for Canadian crypto investors.
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CoinLedger, a leading tax reporting platform for cryptocurrency, DeFi, and NFT users, today announced its official expansion into Canada. Investors and cryptocurrency users in Canada can now use the platform to automate all of their capital gains, losses, and income tax reporting in accordance with Canadian tax laws.
"We're extremely excited to be expanding our full suite of tax reporting tools and offerings to help Canadian cryptocurrency investors stay compliant with local laws," said David Kemmeer, Co-Founder and CEO of CoinLedger. "We've seen incredible demand not just here in the U.S., but from crypto consumers all over the world who need help with tax reporting. With this rollout, crypto tax compliance for the average Canadian will be as simple as a few button clicks."
The interoperable nature of cryptocurrencies and digital assets, with transfers across different blockchains, wallets, and exchanges, can create tax reporting nightmares for individuals. CoinLedger solves this problem by integrating directly with hundreds of cryptocurrency platforms to allow any user to track their digital-asset transaction history across the entire crypto-economy.
By simply connecting their wallets to CoinLedger, Canadian users can now automatically import and account for their historical transactions across all of their crypto platforms. From here, they can generate the relevant local tax forms with the click of a button.
The Canadian Revenue Agency, along with governments around the world, is quickly ramping up enforcement efforts with regards to the tax compliance for digital assets. Efforts include increased tax audits, compliance requirements for exchanges, and new intelligence units. These initiatives are expected to increase in years ahead as the digital asset industry continues to grow.
CoinLedger enables seamless tax reporting for participants of the digital asset economy. Founded in 2018, CoinLedger was built to reduce the friction of participating in the cryptocurrency ecosystem by making tax reporting as simple as possible. By directly integrating with major exchanges, wallets, blockchains, and NFT platforms, CoinLedger provides a unified dashboard for users to track and monitor their cryptocurrency activity. Whether you're trading cryptocurrencies, buying and selling NFTs, or staking on DeFi protocols, CoinLedger makes tracking your portfolio and reporting your taxes easier than ever. For more information, visit https://coinledger.io/.
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Leader in Fundraising Consulting Examines US Philanthropic Trends Amid Steady Giving in
2022 Report
NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CCS Fundraising released the eleventh edition of its Snapshot of Today's Philanthropic Landscape report, the premier resource for nonprofits and associations that compiles and analyzes industry research. The report provides commentary and a synthesis of the current state of philanthropy in the U.S. from the country's leading fundraising and philanthropy experts to help nonprofit leaders create informed and nimble fundraising strategies.
CCS's 2022 report takes a deep dive into what a "new normal" for philanthropy looks like after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, analyzes which changes from the initial period of disruption seem likely to endure, and reveals what new and reemerging trends nonprofit leaders and fundraisers will want to monitor.
"In this year's report, we assess key areas that nonprofit leaders and fundraisers will want to examine as part of their planning and strategy setting," said Aashika Patel, CCS Senior Vice President, and Report Co-Chair. "Particularly, we offer greater insight on gift planning, high net worth giving, and emerging digital fundraising trends that are becoming more prominent in the philanthropic ecosystem."
Even without accounting for the spike in charitable giving in 2020, Americans are increasingly generous when assessing multi-year trends. Overall, charitable giving increased by 7.1% from 2019 to 2021. However, in June 2022, Giving USA released their estimate which showed that U.S. charitable giving remained relatively flat from 2020 to 2021, settling at $484.85 billion.
Tom Kissane, CCS Vice Chairman and Report Co-Chair, remarked on important considerations for fundraising professionals. "As fundraising practitioners, we remain inspired and grateful for the unprecedented generosity of Americans, our foundation partners, and corporate supporters. Despite the extremely challenging period of the last few years, nonprofits sustained their extraordinary missions and, in many ways, advanced compelling aspirations through the use of innovative digital fundraising and meaningful connection strategies between donors and their organizations. We applaud our clients, partners, development colleagues, and nonprofit leaders for the tremendous resilience and determination to strengthen their organizations to fulfill the promise of their respective missions."
The report discusses essential findings from across the field of philanthropic research, including:
- Individuals, foundations, and corporations donated $484.85 billion in 2021
- Giving in six out of ten charitable sectors saw an increase from 2020 to 2021
- Individuals continue to drive US philanthropy, contributing $326.87 billion in 2021
- The amount donated by individuals has increased, but the number of donors has decreased
- Foundation giving decreased by 1.2% to $90.88 billion in 2021
- Corporate philanthropy was the fastest-growing giving source at 18.3%, totaling $21.08 billion
- Bequest giving declined by 11.4% to $46.01 billion
- Grants from DAFs reached $34.67 billion, a new high
A copy of the CCS 2022 Snapshot of Today's Philanthropic Landscape can be found here.
CCS Fundraising is a strategic consulting firm that has partnered with nonprofits for transformational change for 75 years. CCS Fundraising provides a wide range of services that support and strengthen nonprofit fundraising programs, including campaign management, strategic planning, data analytics, and major gift strategy. The firm's experts, skilled in campaign and development strategy, work closely with organizations of all sizes across nonprofit sectors and geographies.
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Awards Celebrating Innovation and Achievement in Computer Vision and Edge AI
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Edge AI and Vision Alliance today announced the 2022 winners of the Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Awards. The Awards celebrate the innovation and achievement of the industry's leading companies that are enabling and developing products incorporating edge AI and computer vision technologies.
"This is the fifth year of our awards program and once again we were impressed with the number of high-quality entries across a broad range of product categories—from building-block technologies to ready-to-use solutions delivered directly to consumers and enterprises." said Jeff Bier, Founder of the Edge AI and Vision Alliance. "The popularity of our awards program is a testament to the diversity and accelerating expansion of edge AI and vision technologies into virtually every industry."
Entries are judged by an independent, expert panel on innovation, impact on customers and the market, and competitive differentiation.
The winners and their reactions to their awards include:
Best Edge AI Processor: Blaize—Pathfinder P1600 Embedded System on Module
"Blaize is honored that the Edge AI and Vision Alliance's panel of independent industry judges selected our Blaize® Pathfinder P1600 Embedded SoM as the Best Edge AI Processor in the 2022 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Awards. Our chip is a software-defined AI inference accelerator based on the Blaize® Graph Streaming Processor® (GSP®) architecture with low power, low latency, and energy efficiency ideal for AI inferencing workloads at the Edge," said Dinakar Munagala, Co-founder and CEO, Blaize.
Honorable Mention, Edge AI Processor: CEVA—NuePro-M
This year the judges issued their first Honorable Mention for a Product of the Year Award in the Edge AI Processor category to recognize CEVA for its NuePro-M product. The independent panel of judges evaluated CEVA's entry on innovation, differentiation, market impact and customer impact. CEVA's entry received an impressive score and the judges recommended that CEVA receive this special recognition.
Best Camera or Sensor: Luxonis—OAK-D-Lite
"Our goal when we started Luxonis was to make Robotics Perception Easy. Our users have discovered that with OAK devices, they can just get to work solving their robotics problems— instead of fighting to integrate disparate hardware, firmware and software." said Brandon Gilles, CEO at Luxonis. "Luxonis has accomplished this with our OAK devices, which include the OAK-D-LITE, the 2022 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year award winner in the Camera or Sensor category."
Best Edge AI Software or Algorithm: Sequitur Labs—EmSPARK Security Site 3.0
"Edge AI is amazing… but only if it's secure. Sequitur Labs continues to lead the way in protecting AI models at the edge," said Phil Attfield, CEO at Sequitur Labs. "It's an honor to be recognized by the Edge AI and Vision Alliance. Thanks for the award!"
Best Edge AI Developer Tool: Edge Impulse—EON Compiler
"On behalf of the Edge Impulse team, we're honored to receive this year's Edge AI and Vision Product Award in the Edge AI Developer Tools category. We believe the EON Tuner represents a major breakthrough in the world of edge machine learning, by enabling you to find and select the best model for your application within the constraints of your target device in just a few clicks," said Jan Jongboom, Edge Impulse Co-Founder and CTO. "This provides developers and enterprises the confidence they need to build the optimal ML pipeline for their real-world vision solution."
Best Automotive Solution: Synopsys—DesignWare ARC EV7xFS Processor IP for Functional Safety
"We thank the Edge AI and Vision Alliance for recognizing the Synopsys ARC® EV7xFS Processor IP with the 'Best Automotive AI Product of 2022' award. The Synopsys ARC EV7xFS processor family, the recently announced Synopsys ARC NPX6FS processor family, and Synopsys' comprehensive solution for automotive designs enable companies to create differentiated, safe, and secure SoCs while accelerating time to market," said John Koeter, Sr. Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for IP at Synopsys.
Best Enterprise Edge AI End Product: Grabango—Grabango's Checkout-Free Technology
"Grabango is honored to be recognized as a 2022 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year winner." said Will Glaser, founder and CEO of Grabango. "Powered by advanced computer vision technology, Grabango's checkout-free solution offers a differentiated, technical approach to a seemingly simple problem—eliminating lines and saving shoppers time."
Best Consumer Edge AI End Product: OrCam Technologies—OrCam Read
OrCam Read is the first of a new class of easy-to-use handheld digital readers that supports people with mild to moderate vision loss, as well as those with reading challenges, to access the texts they need and to more effectively accomplish their daily tasks. All of OrCam Read's information processing—from its text-to-speech functionality implemented to operate on the edge, to its voice-controlled operation using the "Hey OrCam" voice assistant, to the natural language processing and natural language understanding-driven Smart Reading feature—is processed locally, on the device, with no data connectivity required.
For more information on the Awards, please visit https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/edge-ai-vision-product-year-awards/.
About the Edge AI and Vision Alliance
The Edge AI and Vision Alliance is a worldwide industry partnership bringing together technology providers and end-product companies who are creating and enabling innovative and practical applications for computer vision and edge AI. Membership is open to any company that supplies or uses technology for edge AI and vision systems and applications. For more information on the Alliance, visit https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/.
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Mob: +1 (650) 339-9892
Email: brusco@edge-ai-vision.com
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JLo Beauty Launches JLo Body™ with Booty-Focused Formula
LOS ANGELES, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JLo Beauty, a high-performance line of skincare rooted in seriously sexy science and founded by world-renowned entertainer Jennifer Lopez, announces its first category expansion with the highly anticipated launch of body care. Introducing JLo Body, a clinically backed line of high-performance skincare for the body that delivers visible results and limitless confidence.
"For me, it's all about feeling confident in your skin, no matter what," says Lopez, "We give all this care and attention to the skin on our face, but we sometimes neglect the body. It was important to me to create a skincare routine for the body to address its specific and unique needs. It's all the power and science behind JLo Beauty… now for body."
Firm + Flaunt Targeted Booty Balm is the first clinically tested formula to launch under the JLo Body franchise as requested by JLo Beauty's ageless consumers who were looking to upgrade their bodycare with new textures and active ingredients that deliver powerful results. Inspired by the most iconic booty, JLo Beauty Firm + Flaunt Targeted Booty Balm is proven to firm skin's appearance, help improve skin elasticity, and fade the appearance of stretch marks in targeted areas like the booty, hips and thighs with a blend of powerful active ingredients like invigorating Guarana Seed Extract and Pink Pepperslim.
To cement the brand's seriously sexy science positioning, every JLo Beauty product is clinically tested to ensure visible, transformative results. Based on a clinical study, 100% of participants demonstrated a measured increase in hydration immediately after application*; 71% of participants demonstrated a measured increase in skin texture/smoothness after 4 weeks*; and 74% of participants demonstrated a measured improvement in skin elasticity after 8 weeks.* JLo Beauty also prioritizes Confidence Claims, with 76% of users experiencing restored confidence after 8 weeks of use**.
On July 24th – Jennifer's birthday – the superstar gave new meaning to the "birthday suit" by baring it all to mark the launch of JLo Body as part of an omnichannel marketing campaign. The launch campaign includes bi-coastal billboards, print ads, e-mail, SMS, exclusive social content, LIVE moments with Jennifer, influencer campaigns, activations with exclusive retailer Sephora, and partnerships with select JLo superfans – all in an effort to celebrate the brand founder's mantra: Beauty has no expiration date.
JLo Beauty Firm + Flaunt Targeted Booty Balm ($65) is available now on www.jlobeauty.com.
*Based on a clinical study of 34 women, ranging from 27 to 63
**User perception results as part of an 8-week clinical study of 29 women
About JLo Beauty
Jennifer Lopez launched JLo Beauty in January 2021 to bring her iconic "JLo Glow" to her community. The company expanded to include Lifestyle in 2022. Rooted in "seriously sexy science," JLo Beauty & Lifestyle continues to strive to make self-care simpler with potent, high performance, bio-active products that deliver transformative results for an inner and outer glow – at any age. www.jlobeauty.com @jlobeauty
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Pelosi confirms trip to Asia, but no mention of Taiwan
BEIJING (AP) - The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, confirmed Sunday she will visit four Asian countries this week but made no mention of a possible stop in Taiwan that has riled Beijing, which claims the island democracy as its own territory.
Pelosi said in a statement she is leading a congressional delegation to Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan to discuss trade, the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, security and “democratic governance.”
Pelosi has yet to confirm news reports that she might visit Taiwan. Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against meddling in Beijing’s dealings with the island in a phone call Thursday with his American counterpart, Joe Biden.
Beijing sees official American contact with Taiwan as encouragement to make its decades-old de facto independence permanent. Pelosi, head of one of three branches of the U.S. government, would be the highest-ranking elected American official to visit Taiwan since then-Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1997.
“Under the strong leadership of President Biden, America is firmly committed to smart, strategic engagement in the region, understanding that a free and flourishing Indo-Pacific is crucial to prosperity in our nation and around the globe,” Pelosi’s statement said.
Taiwan and China split in 1949 after the communists won a civil war on the mainland. Both sides say they are one country but disagree over which government is entitled to national leadership. They have no official relations but are linked by billions of dollars of trade and investment.
The United States switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1979, but maintains informal relations with the island. Washington is obligated by federal law to see that Taiwan’s government has the means to defend itself.
Beijing has given no details of how it might react if Pelosi goes to Taiwan, but the Ministry of Defense warned last week the military would take “strong measures to thwart any external interference.” The foreign ministry said, “those who play with fire will perish by it.”
The ruling party’s military wing, the People’s Liberation Army, has flown growing numbers of fighter planes and bombers around Taiwan to intimidate the island.
“The Air Force’s multi-type fighter jets fly around the treasured island of the motherland, tempering and enhancing the ability to maintain national sovereignty and territorial integrity,” military spokesman Col. Shen Jinke said on Sunday, referring to Taiwan.
Pelosi said her delegation includes U.S. Reps. Gregory Meeks, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Mark Takano, chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs; Suzan DelBene, vice chair of the House Ways and Means Committee; Raja Krishnamoorthi, a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and chair of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Andy Kim, a member of the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan, which had been living mostly free of COVID-19, is now facing its worst outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic with over 11,000 new cases reported Thursday.
Cases have been on the upswing since late March. In April, the island’s central authorities announced that they would no longer maintain a “zero-COVID” policy like the Chinese government’s in which they would centrally quarantine positive cases.
Instead, the government is asking people to quarantine at home if they test positive, unless they show moderate to severe symptoms.
Chen Shih-chung, the island’s health minister, announced Thursday they had found 11,353 new cases, along with two deaths. During the daily press briefing held by the Central Epidemic Command Center, he said 99.7% of the cases in the current outbreak either had no symptoms or had mild symptoms.
Chin Siz-rong, a 24-year-old travel agent in Taipei, isn’t planning to take any extra precautions because he already got a booster COVID-19 vaccine and is used to wearing a mask. He said he switched to takeout when he eats out alone, but still will go to restaurants with friends.
“I already got three shots, and now everyone is saying its severity is like a cold. So I’m not too afraid for myself,” said Chin.
Most of Taiwan’s 858 COVID-19 deaths came from summer 2021. Until this month, it had been the island’s one major outbreak in the pandemic.
Taiwan has been relatively lucky throughout the pandemic, but also has maintained strict border controls with a two-week quarantine on arrival required for all visitors.
Domestically, mask wearing is universal both outdoors and indoors. Masks are legally required on public transportation and in places like shops and theaters.
In the past few weeks, as cases have ratcheted up, people scrambled to buy up rapid tests with stores selling out in just a few hours. Convenience stores across Taipei were unsure where their next delivery would come from.
Difficulty buying rapid tests is likely due in part to the government’s thought throughout the pandemic that there are few benefits to mass testing. The health minister last year said that public funds and medical resources could better be used elsewhere.
That changed with last year’s outbreak.
The central government this month said it would work with Taiwanese companies who manufacture tests to ensure that everyone would have access. A system was rolled out Thursday that limits each person to buying one pack of five tests per trip. Each purchase must be linked to an individual’s national ID to ensure that there is no stockpiling.
Experts are worried about the 5 million people who have not been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Those who did not complete a full vaccination course are four times more likely to get moderate or severe symptoms compared to those those who have gotten a booster, said Ho Mei-Shang, a vaccine expert in Taiwan who has also worked for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Central News Agency.
Most vulnerable in Taiwan’s outbreak this time are children and the elderly. The vaccination rate among people over 75 is 72.5%. However, only 59.1% in the same age group received a booster.
Wang Zi-yu, 78, said she overcame her hesitation and got three doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
“I thought not getting the vaccine is worse. In the beginning with the AstraZeneca vaccine, I was worried,” she said, referring to concerns that the vaccine could cause a rare blood clot. “And then later I got the Moderna shot and didn’t have any negative reaction. It was fine.”
Many of her friends are concerned about the side effects of getting the COVID-19 vaccine, Wang added.
Society’s youngest are also not protected. Some schools have switched back to remote learning based on the number of positive cases each school is reporting. The island is opening up vaccine shots to children ages 6-11 next week.
A 2-year-old boy in New Taipei City died last week, the youngest victim of COVID-19 in Taiwan. His condition deteriorated rapidly after testing positive in a rare case.
Still, officials urged the public to not panic, saying that Taiwan was better prepared with vaccines and ways to ensure moderate and severe cases would get prompt attention.
“We want to tell the public, from the medical world, please rest assured,” said Chiu Tai-yuan, a lawmaker who also heads the Taiwan Medical Association. “Last year’s outbreak situation is not like the one we face today.” | https://cw33.com/health/ap-health/taiwan-faces-largest-covid-19-outbreak-yet/ | 2022-04-29T07:04:48Z |
NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan Chase said its first quarter profits dropped by 42% from last year, partly because the bank wrote down nearly $1.5 billion in assets due to higher inflation and Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The nation’s largest bank by assets said it earned a profit of $8.3 billion, or $2.63 per share, down from a profit of $14.3 billion, or $4.50 a share, in the same period a year earlier. The results missed the forecasts of Wall Street analysts, who were looking for JPMorgan to earn $2.72 a share, according to FactSet.
JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon said in a statement that the bank sees “significant geopolitical and economic challenges ahead due to high inflation, supply chain issues and the war in Ukraine.”
A year ago, JPMorgan boosted first-quarter profit by releasing more than $4 billion in credit reserves tied to the improving economy and waning COVID-19 pandemic. For more than a year, JPMorgan and other banks had been releasing the funds they had socked away to cover potentially bad loans. Those releases had boosted the banks’ profits significantly, but investors knew these one-time bumps in profits were temporary.
Now JPMorgan is going in reverse. The bank set aside $1.46 billion to write off its assets tied to Russia as well as assets that have been negatively exposed to persistently higher inflation. The bank said most of the Russian exposure was in its investment banking division as well as its asset management business.
In a call with reporters, JPMorgan Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Barnum said most of the Russian write downs were “name specific” Russian companies and assets, as well as some Russian-related derivatives.
JPMorgan is the first of Wall Street big banks to report their results for the first quarter. Analysts expect Wall Street will report a modest, but noticeable, hit to its profits as banks individually report their exposure to Russia. JPMorgan had a modest business in Russia. Citigroup, which had both an investment bank and a consumer banking business, will report its results on Thursday.
Dimon said JPMorgan is optimistic in the short-term about the U.S. economy and consumer spending.
Dimon has said publicly that he believes the U.S. consumer is in the best shape he’s seen in his career. Delinquencies are low and wages are rising, which should make it easier for consumers to pay their debts. JPMorgan’s consumer banking division saw credit card users spend more on their cards, and noticed a jump in travel and entertainment spending as well.
The volatility in markets the first three months of the year due to Russia’s invasion as well as inflation also negatively impacted the bank’s trading desks. JPMorgan’s corporate and investment bank posted a 26% decline in profits from a year earlier. Investment banking revenue and fees dropped sharply, as companies put deals on hold. Stock and bond trading revenues also declined.
JPMorgan shares were down more than 3% in early trading. | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/jpmorgan-profits-drop-42-bank-writes-off-russian-assets/ | 2022-04-13T19:46:33Z |
Kraft Macaroni & Cheese gets new name
Published: Jun. 22, 2022 at 11:22 AM EDT|Updated: 59 minutes ago
(CNN) - Kraft Macaroni & Cheese is rebranding and shortening its name to Kraft Mac & Cheese, the first name change in the product’s 85-year history.
Kraft said the change is meant to reflect how fans already refer to the brand.
The box is also getting a subtle makeover, with a refreshed logo and a single-hue blue that the company says amplifies the brand’s most recognizable asset: the noodle smile.
Kraft said the name and box changes are part of an effort to rebrand the household staple as “comfort food.”
The new packaging with the new name hits shelves in August.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Monday cautioned that courts look political and forfeit legitimacy when they needlessly overturn precedent and decide more than they have to.
Speaking less than three months after a five-justice conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade’s constitutional guarantee of abortion access, Kagan said the public’s view of the court can be damaged especially when changes in its membership lead to big changes in the law.
She stressed that she was not talking about any particular decision or even a string of rulings with which she disagreed.
Still, her remarks were similar to points made in dissenting opinions she wrote or contributed to in recent months, including in the abortion case.
“Judges create legitimacy problems for themselves … when they instead stray into places where it looks like they’re an extension of the political process or when they’re imposing their own personal preferences,” Kagan said at Temple Emanu-El in New York. The event was livestreamed.
The 62-year-old New Yorker struck a different tone from Chief Justice John Roberts, who spoke to a gathering of judges and lawyers in Colorado Springs, Colorado, last week.
“Simply because people disagree with an opinion is not a basis for questioning the legitimacy of the court,” Roberts said.
The chief justice has been a consistent defender of the court’s legitimacy against complaints that the court is not much different from the political branches of the government.
But Kagan said the court risks damaging its own legitimacy when big changes in the law follow changes in the court’s membership.
The public has a right to expect, she said, “that changes in personnel don’t send the entire legal system up for grabs.” Kagan joined the court in 2010, an appointee of President Barack Obama.
Three of the justices who are part of the court’s conservative majority were appointed by President Donald Trump. They voted to overturn Roe, and also imposed limits on the Biden administration’s efforts to fight climate change, expanded gun rights and weakened the separation between church and state.
In the court term that begins next month, the court will take up a challenge to the use of race in college admissions, just six years after the court reaffirmed affirmative action in higher education.
Kagan also briefly addressed the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion in the abortion case, saying it makes the justices’ jobs much harder “when you might wake up tomorrow morning and there’s an opinion on the front page of the newspapers.”
She said she does not know if the investigation Roberts ordered in May has determined the source of the leak. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-justice-kagan-cautions-supreme-court-can-forfeit-legitimacy/ | 2022-09-13T23:49:26Z |
NEW YORK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK) (the "Company"), a leading global creative platform for transformative brands and media companies, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Commenting on the Company's performance, Paul Hennessy, the Company's Chief Executive Officer, said, "With the acquisitions of Pond5 and Splash News and the release of our Creative Flow suite of workflow applications and the Creative Flow+ subscription product during the quarter, we made significant progress on our journey towards becoming a creative platform that allows our customers to create with confidence. Despite macro headwinds, we grew revenues 13% on a constant currency basis driven by our recent acquisitions and supported by strong growth across a range of solutions in our Enterprise channel."
Second Quarter 2022 highlights compared to Second Quarter 2021:
Financial Highlights
- Revenue increased 9% to $206.9 million. On a constant currency basis, revenue increased 13%.
- Income from operations decreased 24% to $25.4 million.
- Net income decreased 34% to $19.4 million.
- Adjusted EBITDA decreased 8% to $48.9 million.
- Net income per diluted share decreased $0.26 to $0.53.
- Adjusted net income per diluted share decreased $0.19 to $0.83.
- Operating cash flows decreased 48% to $36.9 million.
- Free cash flow decreased 65% to $21.6 million.
Key Operating Metrics
- Subscribers increased 15% to 368,000.
- Subscriber revenue increased 8% to $84.7 million.
- Average revenue per customer increased 1% to $359.
- Paid downloads decreased 3% to 43.4 million.
- Revenue per download increased 7% to $4.46.
- Image collection expanded 9% to over 415 million images.
- Footage collection expanded 18% to over 26 million clips, excluding Pond5 footage clips.
SHUTTERSTOCK INVESTOR RELATIONS MICRO SITE
Accessible at content.shutterstock.com/investor-report/index.html.
SECOND QUARTER RESULTS
Revenue
Second quarter revenue of $206.9 million increased $17.0 million or 9% as compared to the second quarter of 2021. Revenue generated through our E-commerce sales channel increased 6% as compared to the second quarter of 2021, to $127.4 million, and represented 62% of total revenue in the second quarter of 2022. E-commerce revenue growth was primarily driven by revenue generated from our acquisitions of PicMonkey and Pond5. Revenue from our Enterprise sales channel increased 15% as compared to the second quarter of 2021, to $79.5 million, and represented 38% of second quarter revenue in 2022. Enterprise revenue growth was driven by our multi-asset product offerings and continued momentum in Shutterstock Studios and Shutterstock Editorial. Enterprise revenue growth also benefited from our acquisitions of Pond5 and Splash News.
On a constant currency basis, revenue increased 13% in the second quarter of 2022 as compared to the second quarter of 2021. On a constant currency basis, E-commerce and Enterprise revenues increased by 9% and 19%, respectively, in the second quarter of 2022, as compared to 2021.
Net income and net income per diluted share
Net income of $19.4 million decreased $10.0 million as compared to $29.5 million for the second quarter in 2021. Net income per diluted share was $0.53, as compared to $0.79 for the same period in 2021. This decrease was due primarily to increases in operating expenses partially offset by revenue growth in the second quarter of 2022 as compared to 2021. The increase in operating expenses was driven by higher acquisition-related amortization expense reported in cost of revenues, higher marketing expenses and transaction costs incurred to complete our second quarter 2022 acquisitions.
Adjusted net income per diluted share was $0.83 as compared to $1.02 for the second quarter of 2021, a decrease of $0.19 per diluted share.
Adjusted EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA of $48.9 million for the second quarter of 2022 decreased by $4.1 million, or 8%, as compared to the second quarter of 2021, due primarily to higher operating expenses, partially offset by increased revenue. The adjusted EBITDA margin decreased to 23.7% from 27.9% in the second quarter of 2021.
SECOND QUARTER LIQUIDITY
Our cash and cash equivalents decreased by $174.1 million to $84.0 million at June 30, 2022, as compared with $258.1 million as of March 31, 2022. This decrease was driven by $227.8 million used in investing activities, partially offset by $36.9 million of net cash provided by our operating activities and $20.2 million provided by financing activities.
Net cash provided by our operating activities was driven by our operating income, in addition to changes in the timing of payments pertaining to operating expenses. Cash used in investing activities primarily consists of $212.1 million related to our acquisitions of Pond5 and Splash News and $15.3 million related to capital expenditures and content acquisition. Cash provided by financing activities consists primarily of a $50.0 million drawdown from our credit facility, partially offset by $18.6 million paid for the repurchase of common stock under our share repurchase program, $8.7 million related to the payment of the quarterly cash dividend and $2.5 million paid in settlement of tax withholding obligations related to employee stock-based compensation awards.
Free cash flow was $21.6 million for the second quarter of 2022, a decrease of $40.1 million from the second quarter of 2021. This change was primarily driven by lower cash flows from operating activities.
QUARTERLY CASH DIVIDEND
During the three months ended June 30, 2022, the Company declared and paid cash dividends of $0.24 per common share, or $8.7 million.
On July 18, 2022, the Board of Directors declared a dividend of $0.24 per share of outstanding common stock, payable on September 15, 2022 to stockholders of record at the close of business on September 1, 2022.
KEY OPERATING METRICS
2022 GUIDANCE
The Company's current expectations for the full year 2022, remain unchanged as follows:
- Revenue of $835 million to $850 million, representing annual growth of 8% - 10%.
- Adjusted EBITDA of between $210 million to $217 million.
- Adjusted net income per diluted share of between $3.65 to $3.80.
NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
To supplement Shutterstock's consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, or GAAP, Shutterstock's management considers certain financial measures that are not prepared in accordance with GAAP, collectively referred to as non-GAAP financial measures, including adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted net income, adjusted net income per diluted share, revenue growth (including by distribution channel) on a constant currency basis (expressed as a percentage), billings and free cash flow.
Shutterstock defines adjusted EBITDA as net income adjusted for depreciation and amortization, non-cash equity-based compensation, foreign currency transaction gains and losses, interest income and expense and income taxes; adjusted EBITDA margin as the ratio of adjusted EBITDA to revenue; adjusted net income as net income adjusted for the impact of non-cash equity-based compensation, the amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets and the estimated tax impact of such adjustments; adjusted net income per diluted share as adjusted net income divided by weighted average diluted shares; revenue growth (including by distribution channel) on a constant currency basis (expressed as a percentage) as the increase in current period revenues over prior period revenues, utilizing fixed exchange rates for translating foreign currency revenues for all periods in the comparison; billings as revenue adjusted for the change in deferred revenue, excluding deferred revenue acquired through business combinations; and free cash flow as cash provided by operating activities, adjusted for capital expenditures, and content acquisition. These figures have not been calculated in accordance with GAAP and should be considered only in addition to results prepared in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered as a substitute for, or superior to, GAAP results. Shutterstock cautions investors that non-GAAP financial measures are not based on any standardized methodology prescribed by GAAP and are not necessarily comparable to similarly-titled measures presented by other companies.
Shutterstock's management believes that adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted net income, adjusted net income per diluted share, revenue growth (including by distribution channel) on a constant currency basis (expressed as a percentage), billings and free cash flow are useful to investors because these measures enable investors to analyze Shutterstock's operating results on the same basis as that used by management. Additionally, management believes that adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted net income and adjusted net income per diluted share provide useful information to investors about the performance of the Company's overall business because such measures eliminate the effects of unusual or other infrequent charges that are not directly attributable to Shutterstock's underlying operating performance; and revenue growth (including by distribution channel) on a constant currency basis (expressed as a percentage) provides useful information to investors by eliminating the effect of foreign currency fluctuations that are not directly attributable to Shutterstock's operating performance. Management also believes that providing these non-GAAP financial measures enhances the comparability for investors in assessing Shutterstock's financial reporting. Shutterstock's management believes that free cash flow is useful for investors because it provides them with an important perspective on the cash available for strategic measures, after making necessary capital investments in internal-use software and website development costs to support the Company's ongoing business operations and provides them with the same measures that management uses as the basis for making resource allocation decisions.
Shutterstock's management also uses the non-GAAP financial measures adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted net income, adjusted net income per diluted share, revenue growth (including by distribution channel) on a constant currency basis (expressed as a percentage), billings and free cash flow, in conjunction with GAAP financial measures, as an integral part of managing the business and to, among other things: (i) monitor and evaluate the performance of Shutterstock's business operations, financial performance and overall liquidity; (ii) facilitate management's internal comparisons of the historical operating performance of its business operations; (iii) facilitate management's external comparisons of the results of its overall business to the historical operating performance of other companies that may have different capital structures and debt levels; (iv) review and assess the operating performance of Shutterstock's management team and, together with other operational objectives, as a measure in evaluating employee compensation and bonuses; (v) analyze and evaluate financial and strategic planning decisions regarding future operating investments; and (vi) plan for and prepare future annual operating budgets and determine appropriate levels of operating investments.
Reconciliations of the differences between adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted net income, adjusted net income per diluted share, revenue growth (including by distribution channel) on a constant currency basis (expressed as a percentage), billings, free cash flow, and the most comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP, are presented under the headings "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Information to GAAP" and "Supplemental Financial Data" immediately following the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
EARNINGS TELECONFERENCE INFORMATION
The Company will discuss its second quarter and full year financial results during a teleconference today, July 26, 2022, at 8:30 AM ET. The conference call is being webcast live at the Company's website at http://investor.shutterstock.com/. The webcast is listen-only. Those interested in participating in the question-and-answer session should register using the link below.
Participants may register for the call here (https://register.vevent.com/register/BI3879892262844c06939b2a0ed7c0e6a2) to receive the dial-in numbers and unique PIN to access the call seamlessly. It is recommended that you join 10 minutes prior to the event start (although you may register and dial in at any time during the call).
A webcast replay of the call will be available on the Company's website beginning on July 26, 2022 at approximately 10:30 AM Eastern Time.
ABOUT SHUTTERSTOCK
Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), is a leading global creative platform for transformative brands and media companies. Directly and through its group subsidiaries, Shutterstock's comprehensive collection includes high-quality licensed photographs, vectors, illustrations, 3D models, videos and music. Working with its growing community of over 2 million contributors, Shutterstock adds hundreds of thousands of images each week, and currently has more than 415 million images and more than 26 million video clips available.
Headquartered in New York City, Shutterstock has offices around the world and customers in more than 150 countries. The Company also owns Splash News, the world's leading entertainment news agency for newsrooms and media companies worldwide; Pond5, the world's largest video marketplace, TurboSquid, the world's largest 3D content marketplace; PicMonkey, a leading online graphic design and image editing platform; Offset, a high-end image collection; Shutterstock Studios, an end-to-end custom creative shop; PremiumBeat, a curated royalty-free music library; Shutterstock Editorial, a premier source of editorial images and videos for the world's media; Amper Music, an AI-driven music platform; and Bigstock, a value-oriented stock media offering.
For more information, please visit www.shutterstock.com and follow Shutterstock on Twitter and on Facebook.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking. Examples of forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding guidance, industry prospects, future business, future results of operations or financial condition, future dividends, our ability to consummate acquisitions and integrate the businesses we have acquired or may acquire into our existing operations, new or planned features, products or services, management strategies, our competitive position and the COVID-19 pandemic. You can identify forward-looking statements by words such as "may," "will," "would," "should," "could," "expect," "aim," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "predict," "project," "seek," "potential," "opportunities" and other similar expressions and the negatives of such expressions. However, not all forward-looking statements contain these words. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements contained herein. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others, those discussed under the caption "Risk Factors" in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, as well as in other documents that the Company may file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As a result of such risks, uncertainties and factors, Shutterstock's actual results may differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements discussed in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained herein. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made only as of this date and Shutterstock assumes no obligation to update the information included in this press release or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as required by law.
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(NEXSTAR) – La Nina, the potent weather event linked to more drought and wildfires in the western United States and more Atlantic hurricanes, doesn’t appear to be leaving us any time soon.
In fact, there is now an increasingly likely chance that the current La Nina pattern could stick around for a third fall and winter season – a rare “triple dip” phenomenon that’s only happened twice since 1950, according to Emily Becker, a climate prediction expert and author of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) ENSO blog.
In a June 9 update, Becker says the models now show a 59% chance of La Nina by early winter.
La Nina is a natural and cyclical cooling of parts of the equatorial Pacific that changes weather patterns worldwide, as opposed to El Nino’s warming. Often leading to more Atlantic hurricanes, less rain and more wildfires in the West and agricultural losses in the middle of the country, studies have shown La Nina is more expensive to the United States than the El Nino. Together El Nino, La Nina and the neutral condition are called ENSO, which stands for El Nino Southern Oscillation, and they have one of the largest natural effects on climate, at times augmenting and other times dampening the big effects of human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and gas, scientists said.
“They really have a very, very strong” effect, research scientist Azhar Ehsan, who heads Columbia University’s El Nino/La Nina forecasting, told the Associated Press in late May. “So a third consecutive La Nina is not at all a welcome thing.”
He said the dangerous spring heat in India and Pakistan was connected to La Nina.
The current La Nina formed in the late summer of 2020 when the Atlantic set a record for the number of named storms. It strengthened in the winter when the West’s drought worsened and in the early summer of 2021 it weakened enough that NOAA said conditions were neutral. But that pause only lasted a few months and by early fall 2021 La Nina was back, making it a double dip.
Normally second years of La Nina tend to be weaker, but in April this La Nina surprised meteorologists by setting a record for intensity in April, which is based on sea surface temperatures, Ehsan said.
Becker wrote that, instead of subsiding during the spring, May of 2022 was the “second-strongest La Nina month on record” with the easily the coolest water temperatures on record since 1950 when it comes to two-year La Nina events.
How might this affect me?
Should La Nina stick around for a third winter season it would mean a higher chance of prolonged drought in the western half of the country, as well as a greater number – and more powerful – storms during hurricane season.
NOAA models show a 60% chance that the Atlantic hurricane season will be above average, with the opposite effect in the Eastern Pacific, where storms will be less likely.
Becker explains that La Nina lessens “shear,” the change between lower and higher level winds which can tear apart a hurricane. Less shear allows hurricanes to grow stronger more easily.
For people living in areas prone to hurricanes, NOAA has created a preparation guide.
In the West and the Plains, a lack of rainfall from La Nina could drive up wildfire risk and worsen water deficits in states that are already under historic drought conditions.
For states that rely on the fall and winter to replenish the snow pack and reservoirs, a lack of rainfall this winter caused by La Nina could be devastating.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/rare-triple-dip-la-nina-appears-more-likely-what-that-could-mean-for-you/ | 2022-06-18T17:23:14Z |
Flogistix to open El Reno Campus
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mims Talton, President and Chief Executive Officer of Flogistix, is pleased to announce the expansion of the company's manufacturing capabilities with a new facility located in El Reno, Oklahoma. With this addition, Flogistix will have 259,000 square feet of manufacturing space for vapor recovery units (VRU) and other compression technologies and will scale up to a facility workforce of more than 150 people.
"With this new facility, Flogistix will be able to meet the high demand for our products," said Talton. "Our VRUs and data-driven technology are crucial in helping the oil and gas industry reduce methane emissions, increase revenue, and stay compliant with increasing government regulations."
The addition of the El Reno campus is in direct response to the rising demand for Flogistix's vapor recovery units and a strong commitment to meeting customer needs. It also signals confidence in the oil and gas industry and the El Reno community. The new facility is slated to open in July with an open house scheduled for August 4.
Vapor recovery technology reduces the need to vent and flare because the emissions that would have been burned or released are captured and sold. Flogistix provides atmospheric solutions that are an effective tool for decarbonization and crucial to providing reliable and affordable energy to the world.
"We are fortunate to have a company like Flogistix expanding into our community providing good quality jobs to our citizens," said Mayor Matt White. "The city of El Reno is happy to be partnering with Flogistix on this endeavor and knows the resources available including our outstanding CV Tech will provide support and opportunities to this project."
"As a company headquartered in Oklahoma, we are dedicated to this state," Talton said. "We are proud to invest in El Reno and its people, and we are committed to a long-term presence in the community."
Real Estate specialist Travis Mason of Cushman Wakefield and landlord OKC West Industrial Park helped finalize the deal.
A leader in production optimization and atmospheric solutions, Flogistix specializes in well-head compression, vapor recovery applications, and methane detection. Headquartered in Oklahoma City, Flogistix operates in nearly every major U.S. shale play and basin and provides service through 14 regional field offices and warehouses located in 7 states. For more information, please visit www.flogistix.com.
Media contact: Kristin Hincke, 14052060167, khincke@flogistix.com
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KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — American basketball star Brittney Griner testified at her drug possession trial in Russia that an interpreter translated only a fraction of what was being said while she was detained at Moscow’s airport in February and that officials told her to sign documents, but “no one explained any of it to me.”
The testimony by Griner, came on the same day that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington has offered a deal to Russia aimed at bringing home the WNBA star and another jailed American, Paul Whelan in a sharp reversal of previous policy. Details of the proposal were not announced, though a person familiar with the matter said the U.S. has offered to trade convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for Whelan and Griner. The person insisted on anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
Griner, testifying for the first time in her trial, also said that besides the poor translation at the airport, she received no explanation of her rights or access to a lawyer during the initial hours of her detention. She said she used a translation app on her phone to communicate with a customs officer.
Griner has been held since mid-February after police said they found vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage. She has pleaded guilty to the charges but says she had no criminal intent in bringing them into the country and packed in haste for her return to play in a Russian basketball league during the WNBA’s offseason.
At one point in her testimony, her tone turned emotional as she said she has always followed the rules and tried to never let down her team.
“My career is my whole life,” she said. “I dedicated everything — time, my body, time away from my family. I spent six months out of the year away from everybody, and with a huge time difference.”
Her arrest came at a time of heightened tensions between Moscow and Washington ahead of Russia sending troops into Ukraine later that month. The slow-moving trial and Griner’s five months of detention have raised strong criticism among teammates and supporters in the United States, which has formally declared her to be “wrongfully detained” — a designation sharply rejected by Russian officials.
Griner, 31, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Trials in Russia proceed even after a guilty plea, and there has been speculation that her admission was a bid to move the legal process along in hopes of a possible prisoner swap.
At the start of Wednesday’s session, Griner’s lawyers asked that she be allowed to testify outside the cage that is standard for defendants in Russian courts, arguing it was too small for the 6-foot-9 (206-centimeter) athlete to testify while standing. The judge denied the request but allowed her to speak while seated.
During her testimony, the Phoenix Mercury standout and two-time Olympic gold medalist described making a grueling 13-hour flight to Moscow from Arizona while recovering from COVID-19. Griner said she still does not know how the cannabis oil ended up in her luggage but explained she had a doctor’s recommendation for using it to address chronic pain from her sports injuries.
“I still don’t understand to this day how they ended up in my bags,” Griner said, adding that she was aware of the Russian law outlawing cannabis oil and that she had not intended to break it.
“I didn’t have any intent to use or keep in my possession any substance that is prohibited in Russia,” Griner said, adding that she understood the charges against her.
“With them being accidentally in my bags, I take responsibility, but I did not intend to smuggle or plan to smuggle anything into Russia,” she said.
She recalled being pulled aside at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on Feb. 17 after inspectors found the cartridges.
Along with an interpreter who provided only a bare-bones translation, Griner said she received neither an explanation of her rights nor quick access to her lawyer, but instead was presented with some papers.
“There were documents that I had to sign,” she said. “I can only assume that they were about the search and the cartridges.”
A woman who presented herself as an interpreter only told her where to sign, but did not “explain the contents,” Griner said, and “I didn’t know exactly what I was signing.”.
She said her rights “were never read to me, no one explained any of it to me.”
At one point, she got on her phone “and I contacted my spouse, my sports agent and my club team’s translator” in Yekaterinburg, where she plays for a club in the Ural Mountains city.
“Nothing was ever explained to me thoroughly at all,” Griner said. “There was a lot of short words – ‘sign here’ – and at that point, I felt like being held against my will so that’s why I contacted my family and my agent and asked for legal representation.”
After several hours, she was finally allowed to hand over her personal belongings to a lawyer before being led away in handcuffs, Griner said. She said she received only a cursory translation of the charges against her during the investigation.
Griner described other instances of language confusion when an interpreter struggled to properly translate the accusations against her during a meeting with a detective.
“The translations weren’t very good,” Griner said. “I remember one time him receiving stacks of paper that he was supposed to translate to me, and he looked at them for a brief moment and (his) exact words were: ‘Basically you are guilty.’”
Griner’s lawyer, Maria Blagovolina, told reporters after Wednesday’s session that Griner “repeatedly underlined that she had no intention to bring the forbidden substances into Russia.”
The next trial session was set for Aug. 2. Griner’s trial began July 1 in the Moscow suburb of Khimki where the airport is located, and it is unclear how long it will last. The court has held five previous sessions that were short, and her detention has been authorized until Dec. 20.
On Tuesday, a Russian neuropsychologist testified about global use of medicinal cannabis, which is illegal in Russia. Griner’s defense team has submitted to the court a U.S. doctor’s letter recommending she use cannabis for pain.
Griner said Wednesday she used medicinal cannabis for relief from pain due to injuries sustained during her career, adding that it is widely used in the U.S. because it has fewer negative effects than some other painkillers
A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said last week that the legalization of cannabis for medical and recreational use in parts of the U.S. had no bearing on what happens in Russia.
Elizabeth Rood, the U.S. Embassy’s charge d’affaires who has been attending the trial, said American officials “are going to continue to monitor the case of Ms. Griner very closely, as well as the case of all U.S. citizens detained or in prison in Russia.”
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Associated Press writer Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this story. | https://cw33.com/sports/ap-sports/griner-testifies-at-russia-drug-trial-about-interrogation/ | 2022-07-28T08:12:53Z |
Cognata's Simulation Platform to join the exclusive portfolio of Hancom MDS to become its premier solution for ADAS/AV prospects in South Korea
REHOVOT, Israel, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cognata, Ltd., announced today the integration of Cognata's simulation authoring software into Hancom's advanced portfolio, to further accelerate AV and ADAS simulation adoption into the progressive Korean market. Cognata's extensive simulation platform solution is designed to test, train and validate perception and control challenges autonomous functions from all vertical markets - from Urban uses, warehouse robots, agriculture machinery, defense, construction, and more.
Over the past 20 years, Hancom MDS has positioned itself as a leader in embedded solutions for the Korean automotive landscape. In a mission to revolutionize our lives with Smart Cars and Cloud computing, Hancom MDS is always looking for a convergence solution that connects technologies in various fields and brings them together.
Along with Hancom MDS's extensive experience in the embedded solution segment, Cognata will be able to dramatically extend its reach and expand its offering to provide significant value to the Korean automotive landscape, on a nationwide scale.
The Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Market was valued at USD 36.80 billion in 2021 and is expected to reach USD 92.09 billion by 2027 registering a CAGR of over 16.70% during the forecast period 2022-2027. South Korea is considered among the fastest-growing regions in the global ADAS market.*
"We recognize the Korean automotive market as one of the fastest adopting regions for ADAS and autonomous solutions both from a regulatory point of view and a technology perspective", says Danny Atsmon, CEO & Founder of Cognata. "We feel fortunate to be able to serve as an integral player in the ADAS & AV market and partnering with Hancom MDS in Korea will allow us to bring our cutting edge simulation technology to the hands of the most advanced OEMs in the world."
Lee Changyoul, CEO of Hancom MDS, said, "Along with Cognata's cutting-edge simulation software platform combined with Hancom MDS's professional total solutions, Hancom MDS is planning to collaborate with Cognata to enable customers to test and thoroughly validate ADAS and AV functions safely".
About Cognata
Cognata is a leading global supplier of large-scale automotive simulation for the Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle markets. Working with leading automotive technology companies around the world, Cognata's end-to-end platform accelerates time to market by delivering simulation solutions for the entire automated driving product lifecycle, from training to testing to deployment. For more information, visit http://www.cognata.com.
About Hancom MDS
Hancom MDS, the leader in embedded solutions in Korea, has been focusing on the embedded solutions industry for more than 20 years, having served over 1,500 clients, including Samsung, LG, Hyundai, and SK. They provide customers with global cutting-edge embedded solutions and aim to help customers reduce time-to-market while improving quality by providing the most effective total solutions for embedded industries, such as automotive, defense/aerospace, mobile, digital device, etc. With its accumulated experience and technical capabilities, Hancom MDS has been expanding the business domain throughout the 4th Industrial Revolution in IoT, Big Data, AI, and Robot.
For more information, visit http://http://eng.mdstec.com/index.asp
- ADVANCED DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS MARKET - GROWTH, TRENDS, COVID-19 IMPACT, AND FORECASTS (2022 - 2027), Mordor Intelligence
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Students to pursue in-demand career in cardiovascular and diagnostic medical sonography
SAN DIEGO, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Concorde Career Colleges, Inc., a national leader in health care education with 17 campuses in eight states, has launched associate degree programs in Cardiovascular Sonography (CVS) and Diagnostic Medical Sonography (DMS) at its San Diego campus. The accelerated programs will provide pathways for students who want to pursue in-demand health care careers as quickly as possible.
The demand for professionals in diagnostic medicine is estimated to grow by 14% from 2020 to 2030, largely because of retirements and career changes, according to The Bureau of Labor Statistics.i About 12,000 openings for medical sonographers and cardiovascular technologists are projected each year.
"As a college, we measure our success by our students, knowing that their ultimate goal is to begin a career in health care and serve patients in their communities," said Concorde-San Diego Campus President Rachel Saffel. "Our new diagnostic medical programs will provide students with the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to help improve point of care and deliver non-invasive solutions to the challenges they will encounter as healthcare professionals each day."
Enrollment for both programs are now open. Classes for the DMS Program will begin in July 2022 and for the CVS Program in September 2022. Teaching students fundamental medical concepts through a mixture of classroom learning and hands-on training in clinical settings, both programs are fast paced and offer 960 clinical hours. Students can complete the DMS Program in as little as 20 months and the CVS Program in 21 months.
The CVS program covers cardiac and vascular anatomy, physiology, techniques for preforming ultrasound imaging of various body structures, and general education topics:ii
- Cardiovascular Pathology
- Cardiovascular Pharmacology
- Cardiovascular Registry Review
- Echocardiography
- Electrophysiology
- Vascular Sonography
The DMS program covers human anatomy and physiology, techniques for performing ultrasound imaging of various body structures, and general education topics:iii
- Abdominal Sonography
- Anatomy and Physiology
- General Vascular Sonography
- OB/GYN Sonography
- Physics and Instrumentation
- Registry Review
- Sonographic Cross-Sectional Anatomy
The sonography courses will integrate didactic and clinical instruction with increasing expectations at each level, preparing students to help doctors assess conditions and guide surgical teams. Concorde-San Diego has seasoned faculty who are dedicated to helping students gain the skills they need to be successful in their externships and obtain entry-level sonography positions.
The Concorde-San Diego campus, which offers a variety of health care programs in California, is located south of Greenwood Memorial Park on Imperial Ave. For more information, visit the campus website or call 619-908-1963.
About Concorde Career Colleges, Inc.
Concorde Career Colleges, Inc., which operates 17 campuses in eight states under the brands Concorde Career College and Concorde Career Institute, prepares America's next generation of health care and dental professionals for rewarding careers. The Concorde hybrid/blended education model combines online coursework with in-person lab classes and clinical experiences. Concorde's 25 student-focused academic programs and personalized support prepares graduates for in-demand careers in nursing, dental, respiratory, diagnostic and other health care roles. Concorde's campuses are accredited by either the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC) or the Council on Occupational Education (COE). For more information, visit www.concorde.edu.
i U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projected national growth in job openings for medical sonographers and cardiovascular technologists and technicians between 2020-2030, https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/diagnostic-medical-sonographers.htm
ii https://www.concorde.edu/diagnostic-programs/cardiovascular-sonography/san-diego
iii https://www.concorde.edu/diagnostic-programs/diagnostic-medical-sonography/san-diego
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(WJHL) — Country music icon and philanthropist Dolly Parton announced Monday on Instagram that she is partnering with Taco Bell to create a musical centered around the restaurant’s popular menu item The Mexican Pizza.
In the post, Parton shows a copy of a “Personal and Confidential” document along with Taco Bell branding. The title on the cover reads Victor Kunda’s “Mexican Pizza: The Musical,” presented by Live Mas Productions.
The musical was written by Hannah Friedman, Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, according to the pictured document.
The supposed script for the musical is “based on the true story of the Internet losing its mind,” according to its cover page. At the bottom of the page are the words “Care of Dolly Parton.”
Parton gave few details in the caption of the post, simply stating “I’m making #MexicanPizzaTheMusical with @TacoBell #tacobellpartner.”
A post on Taco Bell’s Instagram says the musical will premiere live on the app TikTok on May 26. That post featured a photo of a playbill with the menu item next to it. The chain also tweeted saying the musical was “really happening.”
In a TikTok posted by Taco Bell Monday, the company again confirmed that the musical would be premiering on the app in May.
In April 2022, Taco Bell announced that the menu item would be returning for good starting May 19 after it was removed from menus in September 2020. | https://cw33.com/entertainment-news/dolly-parton-says-she-making-a-musical-about-taco-bells-mexican-pizza/ | 2022-05-10T15:30:11Z |
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The mapping data and products will assist ICI in advancing sustainable infrastructure, improving disaster and climate resilience, and updating nautical charts.
RAROTONGA, Cook Islands, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Woolpert has been contracted by Infrastructure Cook Islands (ICI) to collect topographic and bathymetric lidar data and aerial imagery across the Cook Islands. The multimillion-dollar contract is funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Green Climate Fund.
The data and products developed under this contract will help ICI improve and advance sustainable infrastructure development, environmental monitoring and assessment, natural hazard planning and mitigation, disaster and climate resilience, and nautical charting. ICI Project Manager Jake Langdon said the data and imagery will support better management and planning.
"Lidar data enables us to model the landscape and seascape and understand how they both change over time to identify specific regions most at risk to natural disaster, climate change and other environmental issues," Langdon said. "We can use this information to focus our resources, reinforce emergency transport routes, protect people and infrastructure in harm's way, and mitigate the overall impact of natural disasters before they strike."
This project will cover approximately 229 square kilometers, including terrestrial, lagoon and offshore components across the 12 inhabited islands of the Cook Islands. To support work in the remote northern islands, Woolpert Project Manager Constance Solemani is working closely with regional partners and ICI to coordinate complicated logistics, including the prepositioning of jet fuel for acquisition efforts.
This project is the latest in Woolpert's geospatial data acquisitions across the Pacific, including recent collections in Vanuatu and Tonga. As with Tonga, Woolpert will be supported by aerial services provider Kiwi Air of New Zealand. This acquisition is scheduled to occur between July and October.
Woolpert is the premier architecture, engineering, geospatial (AEG) and strategic consulting firm, with a vision to become one of the best companies in the world. We innovate within and across markets to effectively serve public, private and government clients worldwide. Woolpert is an ENR Top 150 Global Design Firm, has earned six straight Great Place to Work certifications and actively nurtures a culture of growth, inclusion, diversity and respect. Founded in 1911 in Dayton, Ohio, Woolpert has 1,900 employees and more than 60 offices on four continents. Visit woolpert.com.
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Two arrested in 2021 Venice DUI homicide case
VENICE, Fla. (WWSB) - Two people were arrested Wednesday and charged in connection with a fatal crash last October in Venice, police said.
Venice Police arrested Juan Manuel Hernandez, 24, and Christina Grace Casella, 22, after an investigation of a crash that occurred on Oct. 23, 2021, on U.S. 41.
Detectives say a sedan driven by Casella was northbound on U.S. 41 just south of the Roberts Bay Bridge shortly before 11 p.m.
The pair began arguing. At some point, Hernandez, in the passenger seat, grabbed the steering wheel and tried to turn onto Venetia Bay Boulevard.
Casella overcorrected, police say, causing their car to enter the southbound lanes and hit a vehicle driven by a 35-year-old man. The victim later died at a hospital.
Casella was arrested in Port Charlotte and charged with vehicular manslaughter and DUI manslaughter. Hernandez was arrested in South Venice and charged with vehicular manslaughter and operating a motor vehicle with no valid driver’s license causing death.
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MONTREAL, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - LOGISTEC Corporation ("LOGISTEC") announces the appointment of Dany Trudel, CPA, auditor, as Vice-President and Corporate Controller, as of May 9. He succeeds Carl Delisle, CPA, auditor, who is now the Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Trudel has solid experience in the field of corporate finance and a wealth of knowledge in international business.
"We are pleased to welcome Dany to our management team. Dany has worked with major international companies and has a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of business processes that will help propel LOGISTEC's future growth," said Madeleine Paquin, President and CEO of LOGISTEC.
"Dany's business acumen and strong leadership will drive a collaborative approach toward LOGISTEC's transformation, as we continue to grow," added Carl Delisle, Chief Financial Officer of LOGISTEC. "His extensive knowledge will benefit LOGISTEC as he has the ability to see opportunities from a unique perspective."
Fluent in English, French and Spanish, Mr. Trudel has over 20 years of experience in the financial field and has led accounting teams at prominent world-class companies.
Celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, LOGISTEC has experienced solid growth and robust financial performance since its founding. The company is well positioned to maintain its leadership role with sustained growth and profitability through its record of strategic financial decisions and bold moves.
LOGISTEC Corporation is based in Montréal (QC) and provides specialized services to the marine community and industrial companies in the areas of bulk, break-bulk and container cargo handling in 54 ports and 80 terminals located in North America. LOGISTEC also offers marine transportation services geared primarily to the Arctic coastal trade as well as marine agency services to shipowners and operators serving the Canadian market. Furthermore, the Company operates in the environmental industry where it provides services to industrial, municipal and other governmental customers for the renewal of underground water mains, dredging, dewatering, contaminated soils and materials management, site remediation, risk assessment, and manufacturing of fluid transportation products.
The Company has been profitable and has paid regular dividends since becoming public and payments have grown steadily over the years. A public company since 1969, LOGISTEC's shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbols LGT.A and LGT.B. More information can be obtained on the Company's website at www.logistec.com.
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Diversity is important to the city of Temple as it grows and attracts more residents to Central Texas.
City Manager Brynn Myers said Thursday that a proposal to bring in a consultant to help with diversity was to make sure there were not any known or unknown barriers to diverse groups among city staff.
“We are a service-based organization, we exist to provide services to our community, and we do that through our employees,” Myers said. “We want to have an environment as an employer and organization that lets everyone be their very best, and provides opportunities to everyone.”
The proposed hiring of diversity, equity and inclusion consultant the Nova Collective has drawn some opposition from residents.
A group of 16 people voiced their opposition to the proposed hiring of diversity, equity and inclusion consultant the Nova Collective.
Temple resident Dennis Butcher, who formerly lived in California and New York, said he enjoys Texas and didn’t want to see the city move in the same direction as states where he previously lived.
“Being from where I have come from, and finally coming to Texas, the last thing I want to see is this poison affecting Texas,” Butcher said. “(Diversity, equity and inclusion) only divides and doesn’t unite. It lowers the bar for achievement and does so many negative things.”
The city’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee is set to vote on the recommendation to hire the woman-owned organization at their Aug. 2 meeting.
If the agreement is later approved by the Council, the city would pay the group $112,000 to conduct a local survey and propose measures to further diversity in the city.
Myers said the consultant would first conduct a survey of employees and city policies to determine what, if any, barriers exist.
After that survey, and talks with city leadership, Myers said the consultant would come back with some suggestions to the city that Council members could choose to approve or deny.
A local group, Concerned Christian Citizens, is opposed to hiring the consultants and invited residents to speak out at City Council meetings.
An opposition flyer with a drag queen prominently pictured proclaims “Help us stop this!”
“Nova wants to invite you and your family understand ‘who you really are” by “gender bending, self-exploration, performing outward (false identity), gender expression (and) sexual fluidity,” the flyer said.
Myers said the intent of the diversity proposal is not inclusion, not indoctrination. She said it would not lead to any city events involving drag queens.
Those opposed to the agreement have claimed that the consultants will push a LGBTQ and Marxist agenda.
Temple resident Molly Goodson spoke against the hiring of the Nova Collective Thursday and voiced opposition against other diversity measures, such as LGBTQ books in the Temple Public Library.
“At this point it is nothing less than an antagonism against a large portion of your citizens if you bring this in and (spend) these dollars,” Goodson said. “In the name of inclusion, please listen to us and stop this mistake.”
The City Council could vote on an agreement with the Nova Collective sometime next month or in September if approved by the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at their next meeting. | https://www.tdtnews.com/news/business/article_de71fe84-0966-11ed-bc02-b7eb2855ccfa.html | 2022-07-22T02:53:33Z |
Two leading platforms unite to provide advertisers with cross-channel retargeting capabilities
LOS ANGELES, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AdQuick.com, the leading out-of-home (OOH) advertising platform in the world, today announces a partnership with Lob, the leading direct mail automation platform, to provide customers with cross-channel direct mail retargeting. This partnership enables advertisers to easily and effectively deliver direct mail advertising to an audience of consumers that have been previously exposed to outdoor ads.
"It's well-known that increasing the number and diversity of consumer touchpoints boosts response rates –– and that OOH, in particular, enhances the effectiveness of other channels," said Matthew O'Connor, chief executive officer of AdQuick. "With the increasing decline in digital ad effectiveness, savvy marketers are actively seeking to diversify their media mix. By partnering with Lob, we're pumped to make it easy for marketers to amplify the effectiveness of both their out-of-home ad campaigns and direct mail initiatives through coordinated, targeted, cross-channel campaigns."
The direct mail retargeting capability is made possible through the use of mobile device location data to track OOH ad exposure. AdQuick shares mobile device identifiers of consumers who have been exposed to OOH ads, and Lob seamlessly ships physical direct mail pieces to these same consumers. Lob offers hyper-personalization and customization options in a number of engaging direct mail formats, like postcards and letters. Delivery can happen at any scale and frequency, meaning that advertisers don't need to invest millions to capitalize on the benefits of coordinated, omnichannel campaigns. Both platforms offer end-to-end analytics and campaign attribution to enable robust campaign performance measurement for their respective channels and measurable ROI.
"Lob is proud to partner with AdQuick and continue to reinvent the use of direct mail for modern marketers by leveraging data from out-of-home advertising," said Scott Cunningham, head of partnerships for Lob. "Direct mail and outdoor advertising are two necessary marketing mediums that are ripe for enabling data-driven advertising. We look forward to pushing the envelope with one of the most innovative OOH marketplaces available."
To learn more about OOH direct mail retargeting, please visit adquick.com or lob.com.
About AdQuick, Inc.
Founded in Los Angeles in 2016, AdQuick.com is the leading out-of-home (OOH) advertising platform that makes it easy to plan, buy, and measure every kind of outdoor advertising. With over 1100 media partners spanning all types of OOH media, AdQuick connects advertisers and agencies to OOH media owners anywhere in the U.S. and abroad, including the UK, Canada, Germany, France, and 13 other countries.
AdQuick enables data-led OOH media planning powered by robust datasets and proprietary tools, facilitates fast and efficient campaign execution, and provides accurate measurement across every brand objective and campaign KPI. AdQuick was named in the top ten Best Places to Work in 2020 by Los Angeles Business Journal, recognized as the 74th fastest growing company in Inc. 5000 Regionals, and was honored as one of the Inc 5000 fastest growing companies in 2021. To learn more please visit www.adquick.com or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
About Lob
Lob is the only direct mail automation platform for the digital age. Lob's platform automates the direct mail execution process for enterprises, at any scale — from creation, printing, postage, delivery, and sustainability with end-to-end analytics and campaign attribution. Over 10,000 businesses trust Lob to transform their direct mail into intelligent mail.
Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Lob is venture-backed by Y Combinator, Polaris Partners, Floodgate, and First Round Capital. For more information, visit https://lob.com.
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Rogers-O'Brien Construction completes the Clinic at Jubilee Park, located in an area with significant healthcare disparities
DALLAS, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rogers-O'Brien Construction (RO) is proud to have been the builder of the Jubilee Park Community Clinic, in partnership with KDC, Parkland Health and Jubilee Park and Community Center. The new, 15,000 square foot facility is in the southeast Dallas neighborhood, near Fair Park. The 62-block area has been historically underserved in accessible healthcare options, with few physicians in the area.
The community clinic will provide primary care and dental services for people of all ages. The second floor of the facility will offer mental health services, provided by Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas (JFS).
RO is proud to have constructed a premier facility with a projection to serve 3,500 patients in its first year, and 7,000 patients each year following. With Jubilee Park Community Clinic anchored in the community, residents will gain access to healthcare, improving their quality of life.
RO partnered with th+a, the architect of record, as well as RLG Consulting Engineers, in collaboration with long-time customer, KDC.
About Rogers-O'Brien Construction: Founded in 1969, Rogers-O'Brien Construction (RO) has been committed to making our clients successful for more than five decades. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with offices in Austin, Houston, and San Antonio, construction at RO spans across diverse industries, including Corporate, Education, Healthcare, Multi-Family, Hospitality, Mission Critical, Mixed-Use, Senior Living, Worship, Life Sciences, Retail, Flood Mitigation, and Industrial. For more information, please visit r-o.com.
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GREEN BAY, Wis., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Associated Banc-Corp (NYSE: ASB) today announced it will release second quarter 2022 financial results on Thursday, July 21, 2022, after market close. The Company will host a conference call for investors and analysts at 4:00 p.m. Central Time (CT) on the same day.
Interested parties can access the live webcast of the call through the Investor Relations section of the Company's website, http://investor.associatedbank.com. Parties may also dial into the call at 877-407-8037 (domestic) or 201-689-8037 (international) and request the Associated Banc-Corp second quarter 2022 earnings call. The financial tables and an accompanying slide presentation will be available on the Company's website just prior to the call. An audio archive of the webcast will be available on the Company's website approximately fifteen minutes after the call is over.
Associated Banc-Corp (NYSE: ASB) has total assets of $35 billion and is Wisconsin's largest bank holding company. Headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Associated is a leading Midwest banking franchise, offering a full range of financial products and services from more than 200 banking locations serving more than 100 communities throughout Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota, and loan production offices in Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio and Texas. Associated Bank, N.A. is an Equal Housing Lender, Equal Opportunity Lender and Member FDIC. More information about Associated Banc-Corp is available at www.associatedbank.com.
Statements made in this press release which are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This includes any statements regarding management's plans, objectives, or goals for future operations, products or services, and forecasts of its revenues, earnings, or other measures of performance. Such forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "plan," "estimate," "should," "will," "intend," "target," "outlook," "project," "guidance," or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on current management expectations and, by their nature, are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Factors which may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in such forward-looking statements include those identified in the Company's most recent Form 10-K and subsequent SEC filings. Such factors are incorporated herein by reference.
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Amazon adds 5% ‘fuel and inflation surcharge’ to seller fees
(AP) – Amazon is taking a step to offset its rising costs, announcing Wednesday it will add a 5% “fuel and inflation surcharge” to fees it charges third-party sellers who use the e-commerce giant’s fulfillment services.
The Seattle-based company said on its website that the added fees, which take effect April 28, are “subject to change” and will apply to both apparel and non-apparel items.
Amazon didn’t immediately respond to a request for further details on the move. But in a notice sent to sellers Wednesday, the company said its costs had gone up since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic due to increases in hourly wages, the hiring of workers and construction of more warehouses.
It said it had absorbed costs whenever possible, and only increased fees to address permanent costs and to be competitive with other providers. Amazon competitors FedEx and UPS both have fuel surcharges.
“In 2022, we expected a return to normalcy as COVID-19 restrictions around the world eased, but fuel and inflation have presented further challenges,” the company said in the notice. The latest fee hike follows one announced in November and which went into effect in January.
Federal data released Tuesday showed inflation jumped 8.5% in March, its fastest pace in more than 40 years. Gasoline prices have rocketed 48% in the past 12 months.
Amazon’s third-party marketplace, where independent merchants list millions of their products, is a huge part of its business. It has about 2 million sellers, and more than half the goods sold on Amazon.com come from these sellers.
Last year, sellers paid Amazon about $103 billion in fees, which made up about 22% of the company’s revenue. The online retailer said the new fees will apply to products ordered before April 28 but shipped and delivered after that date.
Amazon has long faced accusations of undercutting merchants that sell on its platform by making “knock-offs,” or very similar products, and boosting their presence on the site.
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The collaboration will enable researchers to remotely access consenting participants' electronic health data, improving the cost and quality of patient monitoring
NEW YORK, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ProofPilot, the digital protocol automation platform for clinical trials, and Human API, the industry-leading platform enabling life sciences organizations to connect and convert consumer health data into actionable health intelligence, today announced a collaboration that will allow researchers to digitally access consenting participants' electronic medical records (EMRs) through the ProofPilot platform. This partnership will provide a much-needed solution for the highly-complex research industry to improve recruitment and remotely monitor clinical trial data in a more productive and cost-effective way.
The integration between ProofPilot and Human API allows participants to remotely opt into a process to locate, authenticate, and provide access to the EMRs from their original HCP or the study site in a secure, compliant manner through the convenience of their mobile device, enabling two novel capabilities in recruitment and monitoring. For recruitment, clinical site staff can now more thoroughly pre-screen patients in an evidence-based way, prior to the formal screening visit, to vastly improve the screen-fail ratio and reduce the wasted efforts and time of patients and staff when the study is not a good fit.
Additionally, clinical research monitors (CRAs) can remotely monitor the source documents of a clinical trial side-by-side with the study data on demand, eliminating costly travel and other non-value-added activities.
"Evaluation of prospective patients in research that don't end up qualifying is a huge pain point for sites and patients in both time and cost. Meanwhile, clinical monitoring remains by far the biggest line item in the research budget," said Joseph Kim, Chief Strategy Officer at ProofPilot. "With Human API's approach to digitally allow participants to provide access to electronic medical records, our platform can help to greatly improve two of the biggest problems in research conduct today."
Source Document Verification (SDV) remains the most costly component of a clinical trial, due to costs for site visits and downtime of CRA travel. Thus far, most Remote Source Document Verification (rSDV) solutions focus on burdensome document uploads or difficult third-party access to local EMR systems. ProofPilot's partnership with Human API will finally create a path for life science sponsors to reduce or eliminate costs for SDV by offering a comprehensive set of capabilities to perform rSDV.
Patients will also benefit as the burden normally required to collate this information on their own will disappear. Additionally, having accurate medical records on hand by the study staff decreases the likelihood of any safety issues attributable to missing or forgotten details about medical history or drugs currently being prescribed.
"Human API is committed to being the leading platform to engage patients and facilitate the connection, conversion, and sharing of consented health data for clinical trials, patient registries, and patient support programs," said Christian Wieland, Chief Product Officer from Human API. "We're thrilled to be partnering with ProofPilot for this important work, which will play a key role in advancing clinical research for life sciences organizations, ultimately enabling potentially life-saving interventions to get to market faster."
About ProofPilot
ProofPilot supports clinical trials with the industry's first fully automated digital protocol platform. The platform orchestrates stakeholder tasks and optimizes clinical workflows, improving stakeholder experiences and data quality. The elimination of guesswork and research protocol deviations creates high-performance experiences for sites and patients. Founded in 2014, ProofPilot was one of the first global digital clinical trial solutions allowing virtual, hybrid, and in-person research offerings with its patient and site Co-Pilot packages. To learn more, visit https://www.proofpilot.com/.
About Human API
Human API is on a mission to radically accelerate the pace of innovation with a Patient Engagement and Health Intelligence Platform that connects and converts health data from electronic health records (EHRs) networks, HIEs, patient portals, medical record retrieval vendors, pharmacies, labs, wearable devices, and fitness apps into actionable health intelligence. The company gives patients a simple way to authorize and share health data with companies building new digital services and products. Human API is serving 100+ customers and powers leading solutions built by fast-growing startups and Fortune 500 companies in the insurance, life sciences, health plan, health identity management, and digital health markets. For more information, visit www.humanapi.co.
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Orchard is among the top 25 fastest-growing companies in NYC, and the top 10 in real estate.
NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Inc. revealed that Orchard is No. 226 on its annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. In addition to ranking in the top 250, Orchard has also ranked in the top 25 fastest-growing companies headquartered in NYC, and the top 10 real estate companies in the country. The list represents a one-of-a-kind look at the most successful companies within the economy's most dynamic segment—its independent businesses. Facebook, Chobani, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
"Inclusion on the Inc. 5000 list is a tremendous achievement, and is testament to the incredible work our team has done to modernize the home buying experience. This accomplishment comes as we celebrate our fifth anniversary in September – we're just getting started and excited to see what the next five years will bring," says Court Cunningham, Co-Founder and CEO of Orchard.
Orchard, which launched in 2017, has quickly grown to thirteen markets throughout the US. The company reached all-time highs in bookings during the first two quarters of 2022, and is on track to more than double growth this year. Among its customers, Orchard has first-time home shoppers as well as those homeowners selling a property and moving into their next home.
Real estate tech strategist Mike DelPrete recently dubbed Orchard the first "Brokerage 2.0," writing that Orchard offers all the benefits of a traditional brokerage plus more. In addition to using Orchard as your real estate agent, title company, and loan offers, Orchard can also make a cash-backed offer on a property without paying fees beyond the standard real estate commission.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000. The top 500 companies are featured in the September issue of Inc. magazine, which will be available on August 23.
Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2018. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2021. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2018 is $100,000; the minimum for 2021 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places. The top 500 companies on the Inc. 5000 are featured in Inc. magazine's September issue. The entire Inc. 5000 can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
The world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
In a world where buying anything has become as simple as "point, click, purchase", Orchard is bringing that same ease to life's biggest financial decision — buying a home. We combine brokerage, mortgage, title, and technology to make the obstacles that lie between our customers and the home of their dreams disappear. Orchard customers win their next home, skip the traditional home sale hassles, and ultimately get to enjoy the experience. Orchard is headquartered in New York City and offers its services in Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Oregon, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Washington. It's the new way to home. Learn more at https://orchard.com/
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BOISE, Idaho, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Truckstop.com has been shortlisted in the 2022 SaaS Awards program for Rate Insights, the only spot market rate tool using machine learning and artificial intelligence to provide highly accurate, same-day rate estimates at the load level in the categories for Best Data Innovation in a SaaS Product, Best SaaS Product for Shipping, Inventory or Vehicle Logistics, and Best SaaS for Productivity.
Now in its seventh year of celebrating software innovation, the Software Awards program accepts entries worldwide, including the US, Canada, Australasia, EMEA and UK.
Head of operations for the SaaS Awards, James Williams, said: "Innovative technologies have always driven industry forward, and having disrupted the software business, SaaS continues to mature as a key driver for sustained improvement across manifold verticals."
"SaaS technologies are now part of successful business DNA. Continuing to evolve, this year we've seen a raft of truly remarkable software solutions, making it extremely difficult for our team to eliminate candidates at the shortlist stage."
"Truckstop.com is committed to providing innovative technology solutions for the freight transportation industry. This includes the newly released Rate Insights designed to help carriers, brokers and shippers access daily market rates specific to load attributes, including equipment type, location and dates," said Pete Lunenfeld, chief product officer, Truckstop.com. "We are honored to be recognized for our dedication in providing solutions that help our customers run their business effectively and efficiently."
SaaS Awards finalists will be announced on August 23, 2022, with the ultimate category winners announced on September 13, 2022.
To view the full shortlist, please visit: https://www.cloud-awards.com/2022-saas-awards-shortlist/.
For more information on Rate Insights, visit: https://truckstop.com/product/rate-insights.
The SaaS Awards is a sister program to the Cloud Awards, which was founded in 2011. The SaaS Awards focuses on recognizing excellence and innovation in software solutions. Categories range from Best Enterprise-Level SaaS to Best UX or UI Design in a SaaS Product.
The Cloud Awards is an international program which has been recognizing and honoring industry leaders, innovators and organizational transformation in cloud computing since 2011. The awards are open to large, small, established and start-up organizations from across the entire globe, with an aim to find and celebrate the pioneers who will shape the future of the Cloud as we move into 2023 and beyond. Categories include the Software as a Service award, Most Promising Start-Up, and "Best in Mobile" Cloud Solution.
Winners are selected by a judging panel of international industry experts. For more information about the Cloud Awards and SaaS Awards, please visit https://www.cloud-awards.com/.
Truckstop.com is a trusted partner for carriers, brokers, and shippers – empowering the freight community through a platform of innovative solutions for the entire freight lifecycle to increase efficiency, automate processes, and accelerate growth. As one of the industry's largest neutral freight marketplaces, Truckstop.com provides the customer service as well as scale of quality loads and trucks to give customers of all sizes, whether on the road or in the office, the transparency and freedom to build lasting relationships and grow their businesses. To learn how Truckstop.com is helping move the freight community forward, visit https://truckstop.com.
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SUN VALLEY, Calif., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mission Valley Bancorp (OTCQX: MVLY, "Mission Valley", or the "Company") announced today net income of $0.7 million, or $0.20 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2022, compared to net income of $ 1.6 million, or $0.48 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2021. Net income for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was $1.9 million, or $0.59 per diluted share, compared to $2.4 million, or $0.73 per diluted share for the six months ended June 30, 2021.
Second Quarter 2022 Highlights
- Net Income of $0.7 million or $0.20 per diluted share.
- Net Interest Income was $4.6 million for the second quarter of 2022, an increase of $0.6 million or 13.63%, compared to the second of 2021.
- Non-Interest Income was $2.0 million for the second quarter of 2022, a decrease of $0.3 million or 14.34%, compared to the second quarter of 2021
- $14.2 million in Small Business Administration ("SBA") loans were sold in the second quarter of 2022 resulting in gain on sale of $0.8 million.
- Provision for Loan Losses of $0.4 million in the second quarter of 2022 due to loan growth compared to no provision in the second quarter of 2021.
- Loan Production of $75.5 million in the second quarter of 2022 with a majority of the loan production funding late in the quarter.
- Gross Loans, excluding SBA Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") loans, were $372.7 million as of June 30, 2022, an increase of $104.4 million or 38.93% compared to June 30, 2021, and an increase of $58.8 million or 18.72%, compared to December 31, 2021. PPP loans outstanding were $0.1 million, $0.2 million, and $18.7 million as of June 30, 2022, December 31, 2021, and June 30, 2021, respectively.
- Total Deposits were $415.6 million as of June 30, 2022, an increase of $49.6 million or 13.55%, compared to June 30, 2021.
- $18 thousand in net recoveries from previously charged-off loans in the second quarter of 2022.
- No Non-Accrual Loans as of June 30, 2022 compared to $0.2 million as of June 30, 2021.
- Classified Loans were $0.1 million as of June 30, 2022, a decrease of $4.5 million or -98.29%, compared to June 30, 2021, and a decrease of $0.6 million or -88.37%, compared to December 31, 2021.
- Strong capital position, which is reflected by Total Leverage Ratio of 10.13%, Common Equity Tier 1 Capital Ratio of 11.90%, Tier 1 Capital Ratio of 13.41%, and Total Risk Based Capital of 14.66% as of June 30, 2022.
President and Chief Executive Officer Tamara Gurney commented, "Our continued focus on developing a solid franchise through the building of diversified organic production sources is reflected in the record loan fundings during the second quarter, which necessitated a provision for loan losses, and our investment in loan origination and back-office infrastructure to support current loan growth and build additional capacity."
Gurney continued, "The balance sheet remains strong with capital in excess of regulatory defined well capitalized levels, no non-accrual loans, and a solid deposit base. We also continue to build the SBA loan portfolio from our strong production and decision to scale back loan sales due to the changing market conditions during the second quarter, which affords Mission Valley the opportunity to strategically identify SBA guaranteed loans for potential sale in the future, as market conditions warrant."
About Mission Valley Bancorp
Mission Valley Bancorp is a bank holding company headquartered in Sun Valley, California with two wholly owned subsidiaries Mission Valley Bank (the "Bank") and Mission SBA Loan Servicing LLC ("Mission SBA"). The Bank was founded in 2001 and is a full-service, independent, commercial bank specializing in the banking needs of small to medium businesses with full-service branches in the San Fernando & Santa Clarita Valleys. Mission SBA is a de novo SBA lender service provider ("LSP") established in March 2021 that provides SBA lending services to other financial institutions.
Forward-looking statements:
Certain matters discussed in this news release constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based upon current management expectations and, therefore, are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance, or achievements to differ materially from those expressed, suggested, or implied by the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are effective only as of the date that they are made, and the Company assumes no obligation to update this information.www.MissionValleyBank.com.
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5 killed, 8 wounded in violent St. Louis weekend
ST. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) - Five people were killed and eight others were wounded in shootings that occurred in St. Louis this weekend.
The first shooting happened around 3:45 p.m. Saturday. Police told KMOV that Kyierah Jeffries, 16, was found shot outside. She was taken to a hospital, where she later died.
Two hours later, Melissa Moore, 39, and a 55-year-old man were shot at the Midtown Bar and Grill, police said. Moore was found at the bar’s entrance and the man was located inside. Moore was pronounced dead at the scene. The man was taken to a hospital.
An 18-year-old man was shot at around 6:20 p.m. Police said he was talking to a friend when a burgundy sedan pulled up, and two people got out and started shooting. The victim then ran from the scene and discovered he was shot in the neck. He was then dropped off by another car at the scene where Moore was killed. Paramedics then took him to a hospital.
Around 9 p.m., a 17-year-old boy arrived at a hospital and said he was shot. Police say he was walking when a black sedan with no headlights traveled towards him. The teen told officers he heard shots coming from the car and tried to run, but was wounded in the leg.
Just after 10:30 p.m., a man was found shot outside of a home. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Just before 2 a.m. Sunday, a 17-year-old boy was shot at a BP gas station. A 22-year-old woman was taken into custody at the scene. Officers say the woman told them she accidentally shot the teen as he was handling her gun. However, police said the victim told them he did not know who shot him. The teen was taken to a hospital in critical but unstable condition.
About three hours later, officers responded to downtown St. Louis where they found a 29-year-old man shot in the leg and a 27-year-old shot in the back. Both men were taken to a hospital.
About 10:30 a.m., a man between 25 and 30 years old was found shot on the sidewalk. He was taken to a hospital in critical but unstable condition.
A man was found near an intersection of Riverview and River Trail Court just after 1 p.m. Sunday. He was taken to a hospital, where he later died.
Less than 45 minutes later, a man and woman were shot at the intersection of Roosevelt Place and Goodfellow. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman was taken to a hospital.
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As cross-functional contract growth soars, Ironclad doubles down on education and community
SAN FRANCISCO , June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At its quarterly State of Digital Contracting (SDC) event, Ironclad, the leading digital contracting platform, announced its first Skills Verified badge program, the first phase of a more robust certification program. The badge program, powered by Ironclad Academy, will encourage Ironclad product adoption, validate technical skills within Ironclad, and give recipients referenceable workplace merits.
Over the past year, Ironclad has seen a dramatic increase in contract usage, with contract volume increasing by over 140% year-over-year. Contracts have become a core business function across the entire organization, with more departments leveraging their functionality than ever before.
"Contract management and execution is quickly growing beyond the legal purview. We've seen a 285% year-over-year increase in sales workflows launched, a 230% YoY increase for HR, and a 214% YoY increase for procurement. Our data shows that for every legal user, there are eight business users," said Leyla Seka, COO of Ironclad. "Contracts are no longer simply agreements – companies are using them as a vehicle for innovation, speed, and efficiency. When your contracts move fast, your business moves fast."
Across organizations in the business, teams use Ironclad to:
- Navigate complex business environments: Asana, a leading work management platform for teams, uses Ironclad to focus on speed while still maintaining compliance, control, and accuracy during shifting environments after becoming a publicly traded company.
- Provide flexibility and nimbleness: With contracts centrally located in Ironclad's robust contract repository and using its AI-powered SmartImport feature, the finance team at Demostack, a company that lets revenue teams create demo environments within minutes, was able to complete due diligence for a funding round in record time.
- Streamline vendor contracts at scale: As the company doubles in size, Thumbtack, the modern home management platform, uses Ironclad to streamline and automate the complexity and wide-ranging nature of vendor contracts – something that touches every single department across the business.
New badges signal first phase of Ironclad certification
As a first step in the path to launching formal, legally-defensible certifications, Ironclad is releasing Skills Verified badges that can be earned by users who complete a learning path and pass assessments. The learning paths include Skills Verified Badges for Sales Contracting, Clickwrap, Contract Ownership, Core Administration, and Procurement. The launch of its more formal certification program, which will certify mastery with an in-depth, proctored exam, is currently on the roadmap for the future.
"Proven expertise in digital contracting technology is becoming an increasingly important skill across the business – not just with legal teams and contracts managers. To date, it's been difficult for professionals to verify that they have these skills in a meaningful way," said Caitlin Wood, director of customer success at Ironclad. "Ironclad's Skills Verified badges offer improved confidence in skills competence to the earner, and also act as a powerful resume differentiator. Additionally, employers looking to hire professionals with verified digital contracting skills can find talent pools easily by accessing the Ironclad Badge Earner Directory."
To learn more about the Skills Verified program, check out the recap of Ironclad's latest State of Digital Contracting.
About Ironclad
Ironclad is the #1 contract lifecycle management platform for innovative companies, powering billions of contracts every year. L'Oréal, Staples, Mastercard, and other leading innovators use Ironclad to collaborate and negotiate on contracts, accelerate contracting while maintaining compliance, and turn contracts into critical carriers of operational business intelligence. It's the only platform flexible enough to handle every type of contract workflow, whether a sales agreement, an HR agreement or a complex NDA. Recently named one of the Top Companies to Bet Your Career On by Business Insider, the company is a Leader on the Forrester Wave for Contract Lifecycle Management and is backed by leading investors like Accel, Sequoia, Y Combinator, and BOND. For more information, visit www.ironcladapp.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
About State of Digital Contracting
Ironclad's State of Digital Contracting (SDC) has become the go-to event for the latest news, trends and perspectives on digital contracting and contract management. Complete with keynote speeches, hands-on demos and sessions with leading innovators, the quarterly summit serves as a much-needed opportunity to collaborate with, and learn from, the industry's best and brightest. Click here to learn more about SDC and watch sessions from previous SDC's.
Media Contact:
Paul Chalker
paul.chalker@ironcladhq.com
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DALLAS, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Axxess, the leading technology innovator for healthcare at home, has named former PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) partner Tom Codd the company's first-ever Chief People Officer to help manage its growth around the world.
"It's rare to have the opportunity to hire someone with Tom's leadership ability and breadth of experience across so many areas of business," said Axxess founder and CEO John Olajide of Codd, who spent 39 years at PwC before retiring in 2021. "As we grow our interests around the world, Tom will play a critical role in helping manage our most valuable asset – our people."
Olajide and Codd became acquainted through the Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce (DRC), working as members of the DRC's Executive Committee. Both Olajide and Codd also served one-year terms as DRC Chairman.
"While working at PwC and the Dallas Regional Chamber, I was impressed with the Axxess success story and John's natural leadership abilities," Codd said. "Like John, I have always emphasized the value of creating a cooperative, collaborative work environment that helps everyone succeed, and I'm looking forward to working with the entire leadership team to ensure we have the best people possible as the company continues to grow."
Codd was a business and financial executive at PwC, serving multinational and private equity clients in the manufacturing, chemicals, engineering & construction and technology industries. He held many business leadership roles at PwC, including Managing Partner of North Texas, Vice Chairman and U.S. Human Capital Leader and U.S. Fit for Growth Managing Partner.
He was a two-term elected member of PwC's U.S. Board of Partners and chaired the Governance and Accounting & Auditing Practices Committees. Codd is a CPA and financial expert, with human capital and governance expertise. Other leadership competencies include business strategy and operations, M&A, inclusion, equity and diversity, international and risk management.
Codd currently serves as Board Chairman and Executive Committee Chair of Catholic Charities Dallas; Audit Committee Chair of The Ireland Funds of America and The Cooper Institute. Codd also serves on the Executive Board for Southern Methodist University's Cox School of Business and the Dean's Advisory Council for Purdue University's Krannert School of Business.
Axxess is the leading technology innovator for healthcare at home, focused on solving the most complex industry challenges. Trusted by more than 9,000 organizations that serve more than 3 million patients worldwide, Axxess offers a complete suite of easy-to-use software solutions that empower home health, home care, hospice, and palliative providers to make healthcare in the home human again. The company's collaborative culture focused on innovation and excellence is recognized nationally as a "Best Place to Work."
Contact: Dennis Petroskey
(202) 215-6767
dpetroskey@axxess.com
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Management to hold a conference call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time
PETACH-TIKVA, Israel, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eltek Ltd. (NASDAQ: ELTK), a global manufacturer and supplier of technologically advanced solutions in the field of printed circuit boards, updated today that it will release its financial results for the first quarter of 2022 before the market opens on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. Eltek's financial results will be released over the news wires and will be posted on its corporate website at: www.nisteceltek.com.
On Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time, Eltek will conduct a conference call to discuss the results. The call will feature remarks by Eli Yaffe, Chief Executive Officer and Ron Freund, Chief Financial Officer.
To participate, please call the following teleconference numbers. Please allow for additional time to connect prior to the call:
United States: 1-866-860-9642
Israel: 03- 9180691
International: +972-3-9180691
At:
15:30 p.m. Israel Time
A replay of the call will be available through the Investor Info section on Eltek's corporate website at http://www.nisteceltek.com approximately 24 hours after the conference call is completed and will be archived for 30 days.
About Eltek
Eltek – "Innovation Across the Board", is a global manufacturer and supplier of technologically advanced solutions in the field of printed circuit boards (PCBs), and is the Israeli leader in this industry. PCBs are the core circuitry of most electronic devices. Eltek specializes in the manufacture and supply of complex and high quality PCBs, HDI, multilayered and flex-rigid boards for the high-end market. Eltek is ITAR compliant and has AS-9100 and NADCAP Electronics certifications. Its customers include leading companies in the defense, aerospace and medical industries in Israel, the United States, Europe and Asia.
Eltek was founded in 1970. The Company's headquarters, R&D, production and marketing center are located in Israel. Eltek also operates through its subsidiary in North America and by agents and distributors in Europe, India, South Africa and South America.
For more information, visit Eltek's web site at www.nisteceltek.com.
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Investor Contact:
Ron Freund
Chief Financial Officer
Investor-Contact@nisteceltek.com
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Huntsman Corporation (NYSE: HUN) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Huntsman International LLC, entered into a new $1.2 billion senior unsecured, sustainability-linked revolving credit facility (the "Credit Facility") to replace the existing $1.2 billion senior unsecured revolving credit facility expiring in May of 2023.
The new Credit Facility is scheduled to mature on May 20, 2027, with improved terms and lower fees, as well as provisions to extend the maturity by up to two more years and to increase the facility size by $500 million. Its sustainability-linked feature includes adjustments to the commitment fee and borrowing rate based on the company's performance in intensity reductions for both greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption.
Phil Lister, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, commented: "We take pride in the role we play in creating a more sustainable future. Linking our revolving credit facility to sustainability objectives supports our commitment to provide innovative solutions for a low-carbon and more sustainable economy."
More details on the company's sustainability commitments and progress can be found in its most recent Sustainability Report at https://www.huntsman.com/sustainability.
The Credit Facility was entered into with 15 banks, led by Citibank N.A. as administration agent, joint lead arranger, and co-sustainability agent. Other joint leader arrangers and co-sustainability agents on this transaction are BofA Securities, Inc., PNC Capital Markets LLC, TD Securities (USA) LLC, and Truist Securities, Inc. Bank of America, N.A., PNC Bank, National Association, The Toronto-Dominion Bank, New York Branch, and Truist Bank serve as co-syndication agents, and BMO Harris Bank N.A., Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited, New York Branch, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., and MUFG Bank, LTD serve as co-documentation agents.
About Huntsman:
Huntsman Corporation is a publicly traded global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and specialty chemicals with 2021 revenues of approximately $8 billion. Our chemical products number in the thousands and are sold worldwide to manufacturers serving a broad and diverse range of consumer and industrial end markets. We operate more than 70 manufacturing, R&D and operations facilities in approximately 30 countries and employ approximately 9,000 associates within our four distinct business divisions. For more information about Huntsman, please visit the company's website at www.huntsman.com.
Social Media:
Twitter: www.twitter.com/Huntsman_Corp
Facebook: www.facebook.com/huntsmancorp
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/huntsman
Forward-Looking Statements:
Certain information in this release constitutes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on management's current beliefs and expectations. The forward-looking statements in this release are subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances and involve risks and uncertainties that may affect the company's operations, markets, products, services, prices and other factors as discussed under the caption "Risk Factors" in the Huntsman companies' filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Significant risks and uncertainties may relate to, but are not limited to, volatile global economic conditions, cyclical and volatile product markets, disruptions in production at manufacturing facilities, reorganization or restructuring of Huntsman's operations, including any delay of, or other negative developments affecting the ability to implement cost reductions, timing of proposed transactions, and manufacturing optimization improvements in Huntsman businesses and realize anticipated cost savings, and other financial, economic, competitive, environmental, political, legal, regulatory and technological factors. The company assumes no obligation to provide revisions to any forward-looking statements should circumstances change, except as otherwise required by applicable laws.
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ALBANY – Albany Recreation and Parks will host its 2022 Spring Break Camp Monday-Friday, from 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. at four ARPD Community Centers.
Each location will feature a special theme for the five days of the camp: Camp Active, Camp Fun-Fit, Camp Skill, and Camp Safari.
Registration is open and available to participants ages 7-14. Camp activities will include fitness challenges, arts and crafts, sports, games, active listening sessions, and visits from special guest speakers. Participants will receive a customized 2022 Spring Break Camp T-shirt to remember their adventures, including a visit to the Museum of Arts & Sciences in Macon on the final day of camp.
To register, interested persons can visit arpd.recdesk.com online. The 2022 Spring Break Camps have limited participant spaces available and may differ by location. Registration for each camp location will remain open until the final day of camp or until they have reached capacity.
For additional information, contact Recreation and Parks Events and Marketing Coordinator Alexandra Brown at (229) 444-8849 or send an e-mail to abrown@albanyga.gov.
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TIANJIN, China, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MDJM LTD (Nasdaq: MDJH) (the "Company" or "MDJM"), an integrated real estate services company in China, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary in United Kingdom, MD Local Global Limited ("MD UK"), entered into an Offer to Sell (the "Agreement") with Braveheart Hotels Limited ("Braveheart"), a United Kingdom company, pursuant to which MD UK agreed to purchase Fernie Castle Hotel from Braveheart. The Company believes that the purchase of this hotel, with its historical and cultural value, will be an important initiative for the Company's business transformation and expansion to specialty hotels, tourism and cultural markets in Europe.
Fernie Castle Hotel, located in the heart of Fife, Scotland, is situated in 17 acres of woodlands with its own lochan. Fernie Castle has hundreds of years of history and was passed to the Fernies in the 15th century. The castle consists of an altered 16th century L-plan tower house and has been renovated and expanded multiple times to cater to the expectation of today's visitors while preserving characteristics of the past. The Company intends to position the castle as the headquarters for its business in iconic assets and plans to maximize the castle's unique historical and cultural value through branding and other strategic initiatives.
"We are exceptionally pleased to announce the acquisition of Fernie Castle Hotel, which is a milestone of our strategic implementation of business transformation and international expansion. We believe physical assets play an important role in preserving value against inflation and that, by the time we make considerable progress in the strategic layout of our new business in the European market, our international expansion may become a key growth point. We expect to have stronger execution for our upgraded strategic business plan, discovering and operating more assets with unique historical and cultural value in the future," said Mr. Siping Xu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MDJM.
About MDJM LTD
MDJM provides primary real estate agency services, and as-needed real estate consulting and independent training services. Through its subsidiaries, the Company expects to focus on international expansion for the development of real estate-related hospitality, butler services and more. For more information regarding the Company, please visit http://ir.mdjmjh.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact in this announcement are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that the Company believes may affect its financial condition, results of operations, business strategy, and financial needs. In addition, there is uncertainty about the further spread of the COVID-19 virus or new variants thereof, or the occurrence of another wave of cases and the impact it may have on the Company's operations. Investors can identify these forward-looking statements by words or phrases such as "may," "will," "expect," "anticipate," "aim," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "believe," "potential," "continue," "is/are likely to" or other similar expressions. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent occurring events or circumstances, or changes in its expectations, except as may be required by law. Although the Company believes that the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot assure you that such expectations will turn out to be correct, and the Company cautions investors that actual results may differ materially from the anticipated results and encourages investors to review other factors that may affect its future results in the Company's annual report on Form 20-F and its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Investor Contact:
Sherry Zheng
Weitian Group LLC
Email: shunyu.zheng@weitian-ir.com
Phone: +1 718-213-7386
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NEWARK, Calif., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Socket Mobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCKT), a leading provider of data capture and delivery solutions designed to enhance workplace productivity, is excited to announce that on June 29th at 11:00 a.m. PDT, it will be hosting a free webinar on app development using Xamarin and data capture integration with Socket Mobile's CaptureSDK.
Socket Mobile Software Engineer, Matt Robbins, will walk webinar attendees through the process of creating an app using Xamarin and integrating data capture functionality using CaptureSDK.
Xamarin is a versatile open-source app development platform owned by Microsoft as an extension of their .NET platform, adding developer-friendly features like XAML, editor extensions, common pattern libraries, and platform-specific libraries. Written with a shared C# codebase, Xamarin allows developers to create fully native apps with a single code base for all major devices. The institutional backing of Microsoft, plus a large developer community, ensures that bug fixes are handled rapidly.
Socket Mobile's support for Xamarin is another example of its longstanding commitment to providing best-in-class development tools for its app partners. Rather than forcing developers to use one specific platform, Socket Mobile constantly works to expand its toolbox, allowing partners to select the development platform that best suits their needs. Socket's CaptureSDK provides app developers with reliable and efficient data capture to maximize the productivity of their solutions. For Socket Mobile, Xamarin development and support will continue to be a high priority.
The Xamarin webinar is the third and final installment of Socket Mobile's three-part webinar series. Previous installments focused on app development using Flutter and React Native, respectively. Full recordings of both webinars can be found here.
The webinar will be led by Matt Robbins, a software developer with a background in application development. Matt is currently a Software Engineer at Socket Mobile, where he is working on a software development kit that developers utilize to incorporate barcode or NFC chip readers into their applications.
During the webinar, Matt will lead attendees through an interactive walkthrough of app creation using Xamarin, CaptureSDK, and data capture integration. Matt will leverage his experience developing applications across a wide variety of platforms and industries to equip attendees with the tips, tools, and technical knowledge needed to create cutting-edge applications using Xamarin and CaptureSDK.
The webinar will also feature live Q&A to answer questions directly from participants. A full recording of the webinar will be posted on the Socket Mobile website after the live, interactive version takes place on June 29th.
Get detailed information regarding the Xamarin webinar agenda and full speaker bio
Register for the Xamarin webinar that will take place on June 29th
View the full recording of the Flutter and React Native development webinars
Media Contact: David Holmes, David.holmes@socketmobile.com
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Systems Planning and Analysis (SPA), Inc. is pleased to announce that Michelle Howell has joined the executive leadership team as Chief Human Resources Officer. Ms. Howell will oversee efforts to attract, retain, and develop SPA's growing workforce on three continents. She brings over two decades of experience shaping domestic and international talent strategies for several defense contracting companies while in senior leadership positions.
Ms. Howell is known for creating and strengthening a people-focused workplace culture and accelerating the digital work experience. Recognized for her leadership roles in workforce development and scaling HR functions, Ms. Howell counts among her professional accolades a special focus on women in leadership, employee engagement initiatives, and leadership development programs. She is an active member of the national Society for Human Resource Management and is also active in numerous charities and community programs.
SPA President and CEO William Vantine commented, "Since day one of SPA's 50-year history, our people have been our greatest asset. The values we share as we assist our clients with complex national security decisions continue to attract incredibly talented professionals. Adding Michelle to the team enables us to deepen our investment in the employee experience during a key time in SPA's expansive growth."
Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. is a premier international provider of innovative, leading-edge solutions in support of complex National Security programs and defense priorities. SPA's capabilities include Advanced Analytics, Software Tool Development, System Engineering, Strategy, Policy and Compliance, and Integrated Program Management. SPA employees are subject matter experts in numerous domains, including Land, Undersea, Surface and Air Warfare Operations; Intelligence Community, Radar and Sensor Systems; Unmanned Systems and Counter Systems; Nuclear Deterrence Policy, Safety and Security; Defense Industrial Base; Space Systems; Ballistic Missile Systems; Cybersecurity policy; and Hypersonics.
Media Contact: Sue Nelowet, Director of Communications, snelowet@spa.com
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Investor Presentation to be held at 12:45 p.m. Central Time
FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AZZ Inc. (NYSE: AZZ), a global provider of metal coating solutions, coil coating solutions, welding solutions, specialty electrical equipment and highly engineered services, announced today that David Nark, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Communications and Investor Relations, will present at the 13th Annual Midwest IDEAS Conference on Thursday, August 25, 2022, at 12:45 p.m. CT at The Gwen Hotel in Chicago, IL.
A webcast of the presentation will be available on the Company's Investor Relations page at www.azz.com/investor-relations. A replay of the presentation will be available following the event.
Management will host one-on-one investor meetings during the event. Investors interested in arranging one-on-one meetings should contact Lacey Wesley at (817) 769-2373 or lwesley@threepa.com. Conversely, you may also call or email Lytham Partners at 602-889-9700, or azz@lythampartners.com.
About AZZ Inc.
AZZ Inc. is a global provider of galvanizing and a variety of metal coating and coil coating solutions, welding solutions, specialty electrical equipment and highly engineered services to a broad range of markets, including but not limited to the power generation, transmission, distribution, refining and industrial markets. The Company's Metal Coatings segment is a leading provider of metal finishing solutions for corrosion protection, including hot dip galvanizing, spin galvanizing, powder coating, anodizing and plating, to the North American steel fabrication industry. The Company's Precoat Metals segment is the leading independent provider of metal coil coating solutions in North America. Precoat engages in the advanced application of protective and decorative coatings and related value-added services for steel and aluminum coil primarily serving the construction, recreational vehicles appliance, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), container, transportation and other end markets. The Company's Infrastructure Solutions segment is dedicated to delivering safe and reliable transmission of power from generation sources to end customers, and automated weld overlay solutions for corrosion and erosion mitigation to critical infrastructure in the energy and waste management markets worldwide.
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DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inpro/Seal, part of Dover Precision Components and Dover (NYSE: DOV), today announced the launch of its new magnetic bearing isolator, VBMag™, which utilizes magnetic force to create a liquid-tight seal and protect against lubrication loss and contamination ingress in challenging applications, such as flooded, high oil splash or oil mist environments.
"The VBMag Bearing Isolator combines decades of knowledge and engineering expertise to deliver a reliable, long-lasting, leak-free seal for a variety of challenging applications," said Chris Solfelt, Product Manager at Inpro/Seal. "The addition of VBMag expands Inpro/Seal's product portfolio, allowing us to better support our customers with the best bearing protection solution for any application."
With VBMag, there is zero shaft wear, making it the superior choice for applications that historically used elastomeric lip seals, which can wear quickly at the point of contact and damage the shaft. Engineered with rare Earth magnets and precision-manufactured components, the VBMag allows maximum lubrication to reach the faces, extending sealing life and reducing the need for unscheduled downtime and maintenance costs.
Bearing failure impacts equipment reliability across all industries and is a leading cause of equipment downtime and lost production. VBMag rounds out Inpro/Seal's bearing protection product line to offer customers a complete set of solutions.
To learn more about VBMag Bearing Isolators, please visit https://www.inpro-seal.com/en/products/extend-bearing-life/bearing-isolators/vbmag.html.
About Inpro/Seal:
The inventor of the original Bearing Isolator, Inpro/Seal® has been delivering innovative sealing solutions and outstanding customer service for more than 40 years. Their unique technologies increase the reliability of rotating equipment and provide real cost savings by improving the mean time between repairs (MTBR). Inpro/Seal's superior customer service and streamlined production processes allow for same- or next-day shipments on most products, even new designs. Headquartered in Rock Island, Ill., USA, Inpro/Seal maintains a global sales and distribution network to provide responsive, localized support to customers worldwide and manufactures in North America, Asia and Europe. Inpro/Seal is part of Dover Precision Components, an integrated provider of performance-critical solutions for rotating and reciprocating machinery. Additional information is available at www.inpro-seal.com.
About Dover Precision Components:
Dover Precision Components delivers performance-critical solutions for rotating and reciprocating machinery across the oil & gas, power generation, marine, industrial, chemical and general processing markets. Comprising the Waukesha Bearings, Bearings Plus, Inpro/Seal and Cook Compression brands, our portfolio includes hydrodynamic bearings, active magnetic bearings, system and bearing protection, and reciprocating compressor valves, sealing technologies, pistons, rods and more. Each solution is custom-engineered to provide optimum efficiency, reliability and productivity, and backed by comprehensive aftermarket services. Dover Precision Components serves its global customer base through facilities in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, as well as technical sales representatives around the world. Additional information is available at doverprecision.com.
About Dover:
Dover is a diversified global manufacturer and solutions provider with annual revenue of approximately $8 billion. We deliver innovative equipment and components, consumable supplies, aftermarket parts, software and digital solutions, and support services through five operating segments: Engineered Products, Clean Energy & Fueling, Imaging & Identification, Pumps & Process Solutions and Climate & Sustainability Technologies. Dover combines global scale with operational agility to lead the markets we serve. Recognized for our entrepreneurial approach for over 65 years, our team of over 25,000 employees takes an ownership mindset, collaborating with customers to redefine what's possible. Headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, Dover trades on the New York Stock Exchange under "DOV." Additional information is available at dovercorporation.com.
Dover Precision Components Contact:
Robin Vodenlic
(281) 939-2450
rvodenlic@doverprecision.com
Dover Media Contact:
Adrian Sakowicz, VP, Communications
(630) 743-5039
asakowicz@dovercorp.com
Dover Investor Contact:
Jack Dickens, Senior Director, Investor Relations
(630) 743-2566
jdickens@dovercorp.com
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KOLKATA, India, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TCGLS is a global CRO and CDMO company with operations in Kolkata, Hyderabad, Richmond, VA, and Princeton, NJ; offering seamless and integrated R&D services to pharma, biotech, agriscience, animal health, specialty chemicals, and related industries. It employs more than 1,200 scientists and other technical personnel from the best talent pool around its strategic locations.
Pune, Maharashtra, with its proximity to Mumbai and Gujarat, offers a great ecosystem of talents, scientific institutions, and relevant industry players which TCGLS plans to leverage to build a major presence there. It is taking up approximately 100,000 SFT of space to build a comprehensive discovery services center. Starting with an efficient team of chemists and support personnel in July 2022, TCGLS foresees the ability to accommodate a sizeable batch of chemists, biologists, and formulation scientists in the coming years. It is also looking at opportunities in specialty chemicals and polymer sciences activities in line with its parent company, The Chatterjee Group's investments in those domains.
"Pune, being an education hub of the country, produces a large number of postgraduates. We want to induct and nurture these young talents coming from the reputed academic institutes and research laboratories and provide them an excellent foundation for their career growth," commented Mr. Anirban Mitra, Head of Human Resource Development at TCGLS.
The current team is headed by existing and highly experienced TCGLS leadership team members. The center is equipped with high-end scientific infrastructure, equipment, and analytical instruments to address the diverse and complex requirements of its clients and partners. The labs are equipped with automation devices, safety instrumentation, and regular and walk-in fume hoods. It is supported by general access to scientific journals/databases, IT systems with secured networks, human resource officers, and best practices in safety and supply chain.
"Setting up this new facility in Pune further demonstrates our commitment towards building a world-class provider of CRO and CDMO services. In particular, we will strive to provide our customers and partners with cutting-edge science, best-in-class practices and on-time deliveries," says Dr. Goutam Saha, Vice President and site head of the Pune operations.
About TCG Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd.
TCG Lifesciences Pvt. Limited (formerly "Chembiotek Research International") is a leading global Contract Research and CDMO company delivering innovative R&D services in the areas of pharmaceutical, biotech and related industries. We started our operations in 2001 in Kolkata, India, and currently have our presence in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
TCGLS and its subsidiaries have a strong talent pool of approximately 1200 scientists, of which over 280 have PhDs and the balance hold master's degrees; drawn from leading global academic institutions and industry. Our services span chemistry synthesis, in vitro and in vivo pharmacology, DMPK, analytical development and validation and data science. We offer specific/functional solutions to integrated projects across multiple therapeutic areas with a specific focus on Inflammation & Pain, Infectious Diseases, Central Nervous systems, and Oncology. Our infrastructure includes world-class chemistry and biology laboratories, AAALAC certified animal facility, electrophysiology laboratory, BSL 2 laboratory, and cGMP kilo labs and US FDA accredited manufacturing company.
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FOSHAN, China, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bright Scholar Education Holdings Limited ("Bright Scholar" or the "Company") (NYSE: BEDU), a global premier education service company, today announced that based upon a notice the Company received on September 1, 2022 from the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE"), the Company has regained compliance with the NYSE's continued listing standard for share prices.
On March 25, 2022, the NYSE notified the Company of its non-compliance with the NYSE's price criteria for continued listing standard because, as of March 24, 2022, the average closing price of the Company's American Depositary Shares (the "ADSs") was less than US$1.00 per ADS over a consecutive 30 trading-day period. In order to regain compliance with the minimum share price requirement, the Company changed the ratio of its ADSs to its Class A ordinary shares (the "ADS Ratio"), par value US$0.00001 per share, from the previous ADS Ratio of one (1) ADS to one (1) Class A ordinary share to the current ADS Ratio of one (1) ADS to four (4) Class A ordinary shares, effective August 19, 2022.
On September 1, 2022, the Company received a confirmation from the NYSE that a calculation of the Company's average ADS price for the 30-trading days ended August 31, 2022, indicated that the Company's ADS price was above the NYSE's minimum requirement of US$1.00 based on a 30-trading day average. Accordingly, the Company is no longer considered below the US$1.00 continued listing criterion. As a result, the Company has regained compliance within the prescribed time, and the ADSs will continue to be traded on the NYSE, subject to the Company's continued compliance with all applicable continued listing criteria.
About Bright Scholar Education Holdings Limited
Bright Scholar is a global premier education service company, which primarily provides quality international education to global students and equip them with the critical academic foundation and skillsets necessary to succeed in the pursuit of higher education. Bright Scholar also complements its international offerings with Chinese government-mandated curriculum for students who wish to maintain the option of pursuing higher education in China.
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This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the Company's business plans and development, which can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "expect," "anticipate," "aim," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "believe," "potential," "continue," "is/are likely to" or other similar expressions. Such statements are based upon management's current expectations and current market and operating conditions and relate to events that involve known or unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the Company's control, which may cause the Company's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Further information regarding these and other risks, uncertainties or factors is included in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required under law.
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GCM Strategic Communications
Email: BEDU.IR@gcm.international
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Phone: +86-757-6683-2507
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NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of First High-School Education Group Co., Ltd..
Shareholders who purchased shares of FHS during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased FHS American Depositary Shares in or traceable to the Company's March 2021 initial public offering.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) the new rules, regulations and policies to be implemented by the Chinese government following the Two Sessions parliamentary meetings were far more severe than represented to investors and posed a material adverse threat to the Company and its business; (b) contemplated Chinese regulations and rules regarding private education were leading to a slowdown of government approval to open new educational facilities which would have a negative effect on FHS's enrollment and growth; and (c) as a result, representations made in connection with the Company's initial public offering regarding FHS's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, and financial results and trajectory of the Company at the time of the initial public offering, and were materially false and misleading and lacked a factual basis.
DEADLINE: July 11, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/first-high-school-education-group-co-ltd-loss-submission-form/?id=29274&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of FHS during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is July 11, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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WASHINGTON, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released this statement Thursday following approval by the U.S. Congress for the NASA Authorization Act of 2022, which is part of the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act of 2022.
"I am incredibly pleased Congress has passed the NASA Authorization Act of 2022 – the first authorization for our agency in five years. This act shows continued bipartisan support of NASA's many missions, including our Moon to Mars approach, as well extension of U.S. participation in the International Space Station to 2030."
"With strong support from the Biden-Harris Administration as well as this authorization, NASA will continue to advance scientific discoveries, enable sustainable aviation, address climate change, and much more."
"As we work to send the first woman and first person of color to the Moon under Artemis, I'd like to specifically recognize Senators Maria Cantwell, Roger Wicker, John Hickenlooper, Cynthia Lummis, as well as Representatives Eddie Bernice Johnson, Frank Lucas, Don Beyer, and Brian Babin, for their leadership in passing this bill. This generation – the Artemis Generation – is part of a sustainable exploration program that will last decades."
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Centerstone, a nonprofit health organization that provides mental health, addiction recovery, residential care, therapeutic foster care, counseling, and crisis services across the country, has learned of a data security incident that may have involved personal and protected health information belonging to certain current and former Centerstone clients. Centerstone has sent notification of this incident to potentially impacted individuals and is providing resources to assist them.
On February 14, 2022, Centerstone detected unusual activity involving its email environment. Upon discovering this activity, Centerstone took immediate steps to secure its email environment and launched a thorough investigation to determine the scope of the issue. The investigation determined that an unknown actor gained access to and may have obtained a limited amount of data from three employee email accounts between November 4, 2021 and February 14, 2022.
As a result, Centerstone undertook a comprehensive review of the full contents of the email accounts to identify whether any individual information was contained therein. Centerstone's review concluded on July 12, 2022, at which time Centerstone learned that the email accounts contained certain personal and protected health information. In response, Centerstone immediately initiated a diligent search to identify current contact information needed to notify potentially impacted individuals.
Centerstone currently has no evidence of the misuse of any information potentially involved in this incident. However, beginning on August 2, 2022, Centerstone notified potentially affected individuals directly via letter. In so doing, Centerstone provided information about the incident and about steps that potentially impacted individuals can take to protect their information.
The following personal and protected health information may have been involved in the incident: name, address, Social Security number, date of birth, client ID, medical diagnosis / treatment information, and/or health insurance information.
The privacy and protection of personal and protected health information is a top priority for Centerstone, which deeply regrets any inconvenience or concern this incident may cause. Centerstone is working to implement additional safeguards to help ensure the security of its email environment and to reduce the risk of a similar incident from occurring in the future. Centerstone has also established a toll-free call center to answer questions about the incident. Call center representatives are available Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. Central Time, excluding holidays and can be reached at 1-833-764-0234.
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Rodrygo, Phil Foden, Pedri, Rodrygo and Raphaël Varane named as TCL Team 2022 brand ambassadors
HONG KONG, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, TCL Electronics (1070.HK), one of the leading players in the global TV industry and a fast-growing consumer electronics company, unveiled TCL football Team 2022 at IFA Berlin. With four of the world's top footballers on board as brand ambassadors, TCL is kicking off a global campaign that aims to inspire people to pursue greatness in their own lives. For more TCL latest news at IFA, please click here.
The TCL line-up brings together the remarkable top-performer Rodrygo, a winger for Brazil national team; the exceptional young midfielder from England Phil Foden; rising superstar and Spanish international Pedri; and Raphaël Varane, famed defender and a key player in the French national squad.
TCL will share messages and insights from the four football players in the lead up to the 2022 major football event starting in November and beyond through traditional and social media channels. TCL will also provide numerous opportunities for fans to engage with their idols in vivid new ways through exclusive content, signed merchandise and competitions, with prizes including a chance for lucky fans to talk to their hero.
"Having the chance to connect to fans worldwide and inspire them to greatness is a fantastic opportunity. I'm glad to have this possibility to associate myself with a brand like TCL, whose track record shows their dedication to providing top-quality experiences for our supporters," explained Raphaël Varane.
"My passion for football comes from playing on the streets of Stockport with my mates and watching our idols on TV. I am excited to join the TCL family and together I hope we will inspire and connect the next generation to football," said Phil Foden.
"Thrilled to have a chance to begin this new relationship with TCL. We all wish to provide positive experiences for fans and spread our passion for the sport, and as a TCL brand ambassador, I'm sure we can spread a positive sporting spirit that inspires our fans," Pedri added.
Frédéric Langin, Vice President Sales and Marketing of TCL Europe, said, "As some of the best players in the world today, Rodrygo, Phil Foden, Pedri and Raphaël Varane are renowned as generational talents that inspire on and off the pitch. TCL is passionate about inspiring our customers through sport and we are delighted to be able to help fans connect with these football greats and get inspired to recognize and nurture their own greatness."
TCL has long recognized the power of sport and the connective spirit that Inspires Greatness in players, and the wider community. As a consistent supporter of world sport, TCL sponsors football teams and tournaments in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, the UK and the US, among others. The company also has a strong track record of working with sporting icons. Beyond football, TCL has also been a global partner of the International Basketball Association (FIBA) since 2018, and is a major sponsor of the 2022 FIBA EuroBasket, starting today.
About TCL Electronics
TCL Electronics (1070.HK) is a fast-growing consumer electronics company and a leading player in the global TV industry. Founded in 1981, it now operates in over 160 markets globally. TCL specializes in the research, development and manufacturing of consumer electronics products ranging from TVs, audio and smart home appliances. Visit TCL home page at https://www.tcl.com.
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New offering enables retrofitting with existing solar, coupling with Guardian home standby generators
WAUKESHA, Wis., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Generac Power Systems (NYSE: GNRC), a leading global designer and manufacturer of energy technology solutions and other power products, today announced a market-expanding update to its PWRcell products that enables AC-coupled battery storage, as well as AC generator integration. Through a new firmware update introduced today, Generac PWRcell battery storage products will now accept up to 7.6kW of AC power generated by third-party PV inverters, giving consumers the opportunity to increase their energy independence and help protect themselves from outages.
Currently, solar-only installations make up a significant portion of the clean energy market, with battery storage systems gaining traction as the frequency of weather-related outages and rolling blackouts increases. Many of these solar-only installations lack the ability to power homes when the power grid is down. By enabling AC coupling, consumers can add a DC-powered PWRcell solar + battery storage system to their existing array, preserving energy for times when solar or grid power is unavailable.
The same firmware update also unlocks the opportunity for a new or existing Generac Guardian home standby generator to connect to a PWRcell solar + battery storage system. The AC-powered Guardian units provide extended protection during power outages when battery power has been exhausted, and by combining an air-cooled generator with battery storage, customers can enjoy the value of clean energy, along with the reliability of a home standby unit.
"Generac is proud to lead the way in envisioning the future of energy through a robust offering of market-leading power solutions that enhance energy resilience and independence," said Aaron Jagdfeld, president and chief executive officer of Generac. "We continue to grow our portfolio of clean energy products, expanding the capabilities of solar + battery storage solutions and giving our dealers and installers a wide array of options for their customers."
For more information about Generac and its PWRcell and Guardian line of products and updates, visit http://www.generac.com
Generac Power Systems, Inc. (NYSE: GNRC) is a leading energy technology company that provides advanced power grid software solutions, backup and prime power systems for home and industrial applications, solar + battery storage solutions, virtual power plant platforms and engine- and battery powered tools and equipment. Founded in 1959, Generac introduced the first affordable backup generator and later created the category of automatic home standby generator - a market in which nearly eight of ten generators sold is a Generac. The company is committed to sustainable, cleaner energy products poised to revolutionize the 21st century electrical grid.
Contact: Tami Kou
Tami.Kou@Generac.com
262-544-4811 Ext. 3950
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Dallas is a place of wonder and that claim has been backed up by the 2022 Forbes Travel Guide Star Award as it named 12 Dallas spots on its list.
In total, the winners listed named 30 spots across Texas including San Antonio, Houston, Dallas (of course) and Austin. For the Dallas-area five hotels, four restaurants and three spas were listed among the winners.
For the hotels in Dallas:
- The Adolphus, Autograph Collection (Recommended)
- Four Seasons Resort and Club Dallas at Las Colinas (4-Star)
- The Joule (4-Star)
- The Ritz-Carlton, Dallas (5-Star)
- Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek (4-Star)
For the restaurants in Dallas:
- Carte Blanche (5-Star)
- Fearing’s Restaurant (4-Star)
- The French Room (Recommended)
- The Mansion Restaurant (4-Star)
For the spas in Dallas:
- The Ritz-Carlton Spa, Dallas (4-Star)
- The Spa at The Joule (4-Star)
- Well & Being Spa at Four Seasons Dallas at Las Colinas (4-Star)
For the full list of winners across the world, click here. | https://cw33.com/news/local/12-dallas-spots-listed-among-2022-forbes-travel-guide-star/ | 2022-05-01T18:41:29Z |
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Technology International (ATI), TechConnect, and three partner consortia today announced final contenders in the National Infrastructure Innovation Challenge who will compete this fall for $50,000 in prizes. These top 18 innovators will also earn membership in Resilient Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy (RISE) Consortium, National Spectrum Consortium (NSC), and Consortium for Rare Earths Technologies (CREaTe), which source solutions for the federal government at the speed of need.
"Aligned with the nation's Infrastructure Law, the COMPETES Act and the US Innovation and Competition Act, the National Infrastructure Innovation Challenge validates shifts we've seen for some time: resilient infrastructure improvement will define the current generation, supported by funding that will impact many generations to come," said Matthew Laudon, Vice President - TechConnect Division, ATI. "What better place to begin than with the innovation community? From energy to 5G, from sensors to rare earths, we're proud to partner with the country's leading technology consortia as they accelerate and fund top solution providers for the good of the nation."
The Summit, co-located with the SBIR/STTR Fall Innovation Conference, Operational Energy and Logistics Summit, Resilience Week, Smart Cities Connect Conference and more, boasts an audience rich with prospective buyers and deal-makers.
Finalists receive, in addition to the chance at funding, membership and engagement opportunities with all three partner consortia. RISE Consortium offers its affiliates access to greater opportunity to work with the Federal government, faster contracting speed, and market expansion into the Department of Defense. National Spectrum Consortium positions its members to: collaborate with senior government officials to shape requirements for electromagnetic spectrum sharing; conduct research and development; and provide technical input to policy, regulation and more. Consortium for Rare Earth Technologies members collaborate across rare earth supply chains, gain greater visibility into national supply chain needs, partner with companies large and small, and generate exposure to cutting-edge technologies.
For more information about this Challenge or to attend the pitch event, visit: https://events.techconnect.org/DTCFall/Infrastructure/.
About TechConnect
With 25+ years of experience connecting emerging technologies with unique funding and partnership opportunities, TechConnect boasts the most robust research and innovation network in the world. It employs a broad scope of tools to deliver top technologies, including open innovation programs, conferences, and open-access publications. Each year, TechConnect prospects, vets, and connects thousands of emerging technologies with corporate, investment, municipal, and national defense clients. TechConnect is a division of Advanced Technology International. techconnect.org
About Advanced Technology International
ATI, a public-service nonprofit based in Summerville, S.C., builds and manages collaborations that conduct research and development of new technologies to solve our nation's most pressing challenges. Fueled by a community of experts from industry, academia, and government, ATI accelerates impact by using the power of collaboration to help the federal government quickly acquire novel technologies. ATI is a subsidiary of Analytic Services, Inc. (ANSER), a public-service research institute organized as a nonprofit corporation, which is dedicated to informing decisions that shape the nation's future. ATI.org
About Consortium for Rare Earths Technologies (CREaTe)
The Consortium for Rare Earths Technologies (CREaTe) brings together the community of organizations that mine, process, and use Rare Earths, and connects them with organizations that can develop technologies to help them. CREaTe focuses on enabling collaborative technology development from pre-competitive roadmapping up through prototype development and production for the benefit of the entire U.S. industrial base. Representatives from the U.S. government, industry and academia are invited to join CREaTe.
https://www.rareearthtechnologies.org
About National Spectrum Consortium (NSC)
The NSC's mission is to build bridges between key stakeholder groups -- government and industry; industry stalwarts and startups; and civilian and military suppliers and users -- to deliver two essential outcomes: breakthroughs in spectrum- and spectrum-using capabilities; and policy and regulatory insights to enhance, inform and sustain U.S. technical leadership. For more information, visit www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org.
About Resilient Infrastructure and Secure Energy (RISE) Consortium
The RISE Consortium works with innovators and experts to rapidly deploy technologies for installation and operational energy, integrate energy and climate resilience into performance contracting, and develop new business models to ensure those solutions are scalable. The RISE Consortium serves as an industry forum for manufacturers, technology startups, energy services companies, utilities, academic institutions, financiers, and legal, consulting, and engineering firms to engage with new federal energy and resilience policies, standards, and programs. Explore further: www.rise-consortium.org
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Nuula's new loan search feature provides small business owners, entrepreneurs with access to offers from 30+ top lenders.
TORONTO, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nuula, a fintech company focused on providing small businesses the tools and the capital they need to succeed, today announced a new personal loan search feature that allows small business owners and entrepreneurs that are smaller or earlier stage to search 30+ top lenders for personal loan offers from $5K to $250K, powered by Even Financial ("Even") the embedded financial marketplace owned by MoneyLion Inc. (NYSE: ML).
Complementing the existing Term Loan product, designed for more mature businesses, Nuula has introduced this new feature to match the diverse capital needs of small business owners, especially sole proprietors, freelancers and consultants. Unlike traditional financial institutions, which offer limited, rigid loan options, often serving only businesses at a more established stage of their growth, Nuula now allows borrowers to source multiple loan options and find a loan that fits their unique needs, including those who are just getting started, thanks to its partnership with Even.
Nuula's new loan search feature powered by Even matches small business owners with personalized loan offers in less than 60 seconds, based on the borrower's criteria and credit health. The new feature also allows small business owners to compare offers – including the term of the loan, APR and estimated monthly payments – without impacting their credit score.
"Small businesses come in all shapes and sizes – and so do their capital needs," said Mark Ruddock, CEO at Nuula. "Nuula's all-in-one approach not only allows small businesses to access incredibly powerful tools that provide real-time insight into the health of their business, but now allows them access to a range of different financing options, such as personal loans, to help them access the capital needed to be successful at every stage of their business, powered by Even."
Nuula's new feature was made possible through an integration with Even Financial, the category-leading embedded finance marketplace.
"There is no one-size-fits-all approach to cover all of the different capital needs of a small business," said Andrew Nauom, SVP of Sales at Even. "By partnering with Even, qualified Nuula customers will be able to access offers from the largest network of connected leading financial service providers and find personal loans that best fit their needs."
Nuula will be announcing additional features and partnerships in the coming weeks.
Nuula is building the future of small business performance. Launched in 2021, Nuula is a financial services and technology company focused on serving the small to medium-sized business community. Nuula provides real-time data and analytics, allowing businesses to manage their finances, monitor their credit ratings and user reviews, and more. Nuula is an advocate of financial inclusivity and a proud partner to Kiva to create economic and social good. To learn more about Nuula, visit www.nuula.com.
Even Financial (Even) is the industry-leading embedded financial marketplace and subsidiary of MoneyLion Inc. ("MoneyLion") (NYSE: ML). MoneyLion is a leading digital financial services and lifestyle content platform serving both consumer and enterprise customers. As part of MoneyLion's enterprise offering, Even digitally connects and matches consumers with real-time, personalized financial product recommendations from banks, insurance carriers, and fintech companies on mobile apps, websites, and other digital touchpoints through its marketplace technology. Even's infrastructure leverages machine learning and advanced data science to solve a significant pain point in financial services customer acquisition, seamlessly bridging financial services providers (such as SoFi) and channel partners (such as TransUnion) via its industry-leading API and embedded finance marketplaces. Even enables any company to add financial products to its business, with full compliance and security at scale. Even was named one of "America's Best Startup Employers'' by Forbes for 2022 and was named to the 2021 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, which recognizes the fastest growing tech companies in the world. Learn more at www.evenfinancial.com and investors.moneylion.com.
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- Exyte named as general contractor (EPCQ contract partner)
- Project is part of the German government's program to prepare for future pandemics
- Implementation in less than 24 months thanks to ExyCell® modular system
- Lighthouse project for the strategic growth segment of Biopharma and Life Sciences at Exyte
- Biotechnology and personalized medicine drive growth
- Exyte CEO Büchele: "Better medical care, faster healing processes, a higher life expectancy – all this facilitated with the support of Exyte."
STUTTGART, Germany, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Exyte GmbH (Exyte), a global leader in the design, engineering and delivery of facilities for high-tech industries, is building a mRNA competence center at the Halle Biotech site of Wacker Chemie AG (WACKER). The project is making a considerable contribution towards strengthening the Biopharma and Life Sciences segment at Exyte as well as to the company's ambitious "Pathway to Ten" growth path.
Today, a breaking of ground ceremony marked the start of the construction work at the Wacker Biotech site in the Weinberg Campus technology park. The WACKER Group concentrates its biopharmaceuticals activities within Wacker Biotech, a full-service provider for microbial manufacturing of pharmaceutical proteins. At the new competence center, WACKER will manufacture active ingredients based on messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) used in coronavirus vaccines and in medicinal products for the treatment of cancer amongst others. On a total floor area of 7,400 m2 gross, of which 1,600 m2 will be clean room, four new production lines are to be built. Part of the capacities will be made available to the German government for its program to prepare for future pandemics. The aim of the Centre for Pandemic Vaccines and Therapeutics established by the German Federal Ministry of Health at the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut is to make pandemic vaccines available within a very short time period. This is to avoid bottlenecks in production and distribution of vaccines and thus damage caused by future pandemics.
"We are delighted to support WACKER in planning, building, and qualifying the new facility with our extensive expertise in the construction of highly complex, high-quality pharmaceutical production facilities. We are making an important contribution towards producing cutting-edge mRNA therapeutics, both for personalized medicine and for the mass market, and are thus driving medical progress," says Dr. Wolfgang Büchele, CEO of Exyte. "The manufacture of pharmaceutical actives is subject to the highest standards. As such, the requirements for plant construction are just as high," says Melanie Käsmarker, Managing Director at Wacker Biotech GmbH. "In Exyte, we have the perfect partner for this project."
"Biopharma and Life Sciences is a strategic growth segment for us. The demand for pharmaceutical and biotechnological production facilities for manufacturing innovative medical solutions will continue to grow in the future. The WACKER project is an important milestone on our dynamic growth path, our 'Pathway to Ten'", Büchele adds.
Sales to double by 2027
Exyte has set itself ambitious growth targets: with its "Pathway to Ten", the company is planning to reach sales of ten billion euros by 2027. This would be twice the figure for 2021. The Biopharma and Life Sciences segment is to grow even more rapidly. Last year, the division increased its sales by 60 per cent. Envisaged sales in Biopharma and Life Sciences are to increase by an average of 26 per cent per year until 2027. This means that sales in this segment are to quadruple by 2027 compared to 2021. With sales of 1.5 billion euros, the segment will then generate 15 per cent of Exyte's total sales. Currently, the company is expanding its presence in Europe and the US to this end. "Our high-tech factories enable our customers to deliver innovative products and services that improve the quality of life. Better medical care, faster healing processes, a higher life expectancy – all this facilitated with the support of Exyte," Büchele points out.
Exyte draws on extensive and long-standing technical and process engineering expertise in the Biopharma and Life Sciences segment. The company is the preferred partner of its customers in supporting them with the efficient construction of new production facilities and the modernization of existing ones. Customers include global leaders in industries such as biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, specialty and fine chemicals, medical products, consumer care as well as food and diet.
Billion-euro market biopharma and biotechnology
According to the market research company Next Move Strategy Consulting the global market for biopharmaceutical products is to grow to 950 billion US dollars (900 billion euros) by 2030, an increase of 180 per cent compared to 2021. The OECD has calculated that companies in the five countries conducting the most research in Europe in 2019 invested almost 15 billion euros in research and development in the biotechnology sector, of which around 1.6 billion euros were spent in Germany. As a result, the range of new products has grown in the sector. In Germany, the share of biopharmaceutical products in the overall market for pharmaceuticals was 31.4 per cent in 2021 according to BCG and vfa bio. The figure for 2018 was 27.1 per cent. An analysis by the journal Nature from 2021 shows that 31 global mRNA companies have 180 projects in their pipeline. Future mRNA applications will include cancer prevention and therapy, multi-antigen vaccines or personalized cancer vaccines.
Another driver for growth for Exyte's business is the growing trend towards personalized medicine. The Grand View Research Institute estimates that the worldwide market volume of this segment is to almost double between 2018 and 2025, from 1.57 trillion US dollars (1.5 trillion euros) to 3.18 trillion US dollars (3 trillion euros). The annual growth rate is approximately 10 per cent.
Exyte takes overall responsibility as general contractor for "Fast Track" project
Exyte is EPCQ (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Qualification) contract partner and general contractor for WACKER's highly complex Halle project. All work relating to the new construction project is provided by Exyte or by subcontractors on behalf of Exyte – from architectural design, technical building infrastructure and engineering of the complete plant to delivering the processing plant, automation, commissioning and qualification. Exyte not only offers the complete range of services, but also takes on overall responsibility for quality assurance and delivering the project within the set timeframe and budget. In central Europe, and in particular in the German-speaking countries, Exyte is the only provider in the Biopharma and Life Sciences segment offering such a comprehensive range of services.
The new building is to be completed and production to commence in under 24 months. "This speed of implementation sets new standards in the industry. With the help of our engineering expertise and our innovative solutions, our customers can make vital pharmaceutical products available faster than ever before," Büchele continues. In order to minimize time to market for new vaccines, Exyte uses the proven high-quality ExyCell system for the rapid, modular construction of biopharma production facilities developed by Exyte.
More information on the Centre for Pandemic Vaccines and Therapeutics at the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut can be found here.
About Exyte
Exyte is a global leader in the design, engineering, and delivery of ultra-clean and sustainable facilities for high-tech industries. With cutting-edge expertise developed over more than a century, we serve clients in the sophisticated markets of semiconductors, battery cells, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and data centers. Exyte offers a full range of services from consulting to managing the implementation of turnkey solutions with the highest standards in safety and quality to our customers worldwide. We create a better future by enabling key industries to enhance the quality of modern life. In 2021, Exyte generated sales of EUR 4.9 billion with around 7,400 employees worldwide.
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Globally, women are more at risk for mental health issues than men. Rates of burnout are highest in the U.S. and Japan, but preference for support varies by region.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Modern Health, a leading workplace mental health platform supporting enterprises globally, announced findings today from its Global Insights Playbook analyzing the care preferences and utilization rates of over 100,000+ global members, a cross-section of its member base, to determine how employee mental health needs vary across the globe.
According to the World Health Organization, one in every eight people has a mental health condition, but 85% go untreated. And it's not just a personal problem – these issues are bad for business. Anxiety and depression contribute to a loss of productivity that costs the global economy an estimated $1 trillion yearly and by 2030, this will exceed $6 trillion.
"One-size-fits-all simply doesn't work when it comes to mental health support," said Dr. Myra Altman, VP of Clinical Strategy & Research at Modern Health. "These findings reinforce the need for a deeper commitment to equitable mental health support for all populations regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, or geographical location. It has never been clearer that cultural differences can affect an individual's mental health needs and care preferences. This research empowers leaders with a better understanding of how these nuances present themselves in the workplace and the critical need for culturally centered support."
Using clinically-validated WHO-5 member assessments obtained during member onboarding, Modern Health analyzed anonymous utilization from over 100,000 members across the US & Canada, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa, and Latin America, to reveal how employee needs and care preferences vary by country and region.
"From our research we can see that members in the U.S. and Canada have the highest preference for one-on-one services like therapy and coaching compared to regions such as APAC which shows a stronger preference for self-guided care than other regions. Out of all the regions, Japan and the U.S. are reporting the highest levels of employee burnout with females in the U.S. more at risk for mental health challenges than men," adds Altman.
According to the data, employees across the globe are struggling with burnout, resulting in losses in productivity, engagement and retention across organizations, to the tune of $322 billion in lost revenue.
- The countries with the most employees citing burnout (every day or a few times per week) were Japan (32%) and the U.S. (32%), followed by Pakistan (30%) and Mexico (30%).
- Burnout was less common in the Netherlands (22%) and Germany (22%) which demonstrated the lowest levels of burnout among members.
- During member onboarding, Pakistan had the highest risk for mental health issues, (37%) followed by India (33%), the UK (27%), Canada (26%), then the U.S. (25%).
- Overall, men reported feeling higher levels of well-being. Globally, on average more men (22%) than women (17%) appear to be in the low risk category. Amongst men, the UK and Pakistan report lower levels of well-being, thus making men in these countries most likely to be at risk.
- In the U.S., more than a quarter of women members (26%) are at risk for mental health challenges compared to 21% of men members.
- This could be attributed to the fact that women may be more likely to self-report their emotional distress than men. Women's increased rate of mental health concerns is likely also related to a variety of disparities like gender-based violence or socioeconomic disadvantage.
- The biggest difference between men and women's well-being are in India and Pakistan:
- Members were asked to rank areas they'd like the most support and the highest-ranked focus areas globally were anxiety, depression, burnout, and relationships/communication.
- Out of all the regions, Canada, the UK and the US report the highest desire to focus on burnout and anxiety to improve their mental health, while India, Ireland and Pakistan are showing the least.
- In the U.S., anxiety was the top concern (20%), followed by relationships/communication (18%).
- In the U.K., anxiety dominates (22%) followed by depression (15%).
- In Pakistan, depression is the top concern (21%) followed by anxiety (10%).
EMEA shows the highest levels of engagement. Engagement is defined by the number of individuals who have either performed a clinical assessment, used digital meditations and programs, attended group sessions, or participated in 1:1 coaching or therapy.
- EMEA shows the highest levels of engagement with a 35% engagement rate, followed by the U.S. & Canada (28%), LATAM (23%) and APAC (21%).
- As a benchmark, most Employee Assistance Programs have less than 5% engagement.
- Members in APAC utilize digital tools or small group circles for mental health support with 83% using these care modalities and only 9% using therapy.
- In the U.S. & Canada, 35% of members use coaching and 19% use therapy, the highest member utilization across regions.
- Members in Germany, Ireland, U.K., Netherlands and U.S. have the highest utilization rates of therapy, while India and Pakistan have the lowest utilization of coaching and therapy.
- Members in Canada, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, and U.K. have the highest engagement with coaching.
- EMEA members are most likely to be utilizing 2+ modalities of care (61%) compared to other regions.
To recognize the hard work of HR professionals and mental health providers, Modern Health recently launched its inaugural industry awards program Modern Health Heroes. This award honors individuals who have gone above and beyond to support the mental health and general well-being of the communities they serve, including employees and patients. The deadline to submit is July 27, 2022 at 5pm EDT.
Using clinically-validated WHO-5 member assessments obtained during member onboarding, Modern Health's clinical experts with 130+ years of collective psychology experience analyzed utilization from a cross-section of its members base, over 100,000 members, to reveal how employee needs and care preferences vary by country and region. The data examines regions including US & Canada, Asia and the Pacific Ocean region (APAC), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and Latin America (LATAM). The assessments were readministered throughout the member care journey to incorporate final clinical outcomes into the final results.
Modern Health is the comprehensive mental health and wellness platform that combines the WHO well-being assessment, self-service wellness kits, a global network of certified coaches, and licensed therapists, all available in a single app. Modern Health empowers employers to lead the charge in acknowledging that mental health is just as important as physical health, destigmatizing the conversation, and increasing accessibility of mental health services for all.
Founded in 2017, Modern Health incorporates evidence-based psychology principles and seamless technology to serve the needs of companies globally. Headquartered in San Francisco, Modern Health has raised more than $172 million from Founders Fund, Battery Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Afore Capital, MGV, Frederic Kerrest (co-founder of Okta), and 01 Advisors.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Neither Israel nor the Palestinian Authority has formally requested U.S. assistance in the investigation into the killing of a Palestinian-American reporter during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank, the State Department said Wednesday.
An AP reconstruction of the May 11 killing of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh lends support to Palestinian witnesses who say she was shot by Israeli soldiers. But Israel and the PA each have sole possession of potentially crucial evidence needed for any final conclusion.
Israel says Abu Akleh was killed during a complex shootout between soldiers and Palestinian militants, and that only ballistic analysis of the bullet — which is held by the PA — and the soldiers’ guns, can determine if one of them fired the fatal shot.
The involvement of a third party could overcome the severe distrust between the sides, allowing for a full and impartial account of what happened. But there’s no sign either is willing to cede control over its own investigation.
Israel has publicly called for a joint investigation with the PA, with U.S. participation.
But this week, State Department spokesman Ned Price said he was “not aware of any request for assistance” from either side. When asked during a press briefing Wednesday — two weeks after Abu Akleh’s death — if the U.S. had been asked to participate or act as an observer, he stood by his previous answer.
“We have made clear to both Israeli and Palestinian authorities that we expect the investigations to be transparent and impartial, a full, thorough accounting into the circumstances of the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh,” Price said.
Any American involvement would require a request from both Israel and the PA, which administers parts of the occupied West Bank.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Hayat said “Israeli officials publicly invited the United States to be part of the inquiry.” He added that “similar messages were passed on official channels” but declined to elaborate.
The Palestinian Authority says it is carrying out its own investigation and will share the results with international parties. It has refused to hand over the bullet or cooperate with Israel in any way, saying it doesn’t trust Israel to investigate itself.
Within hours of her death, both the PA and the Qatar-based Al Jazeera accused Israel of deliberately killing Abu Akleh, but provided no specific evidence for the claim, which Israel strongly denies.
Ballistics analysis could potentially match the bullet to a specific firearm, but only if investigators have access to both. Israel and the Palestinians are unlikely to accept any conclusions reached by the other side.
Abu Akleh had spent more than 25 years covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She was a widely known and respected on-air correspondent for Al Jazeera’s Arabic service, where she reported on Israel’s nearly 55-year military occupation of the West Bank. She is now seen by Palestinians as a martyr to both journalism and their national struggle.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - First Mining Gold Corp. ("First Mining" or the "Company") (TSX: FF) (OTCQX: FFMGF) (FRANKFURT: FMG) is pleased to announce that it has completed the previously announced acquisition (the "Beattie Offer") of all the issued and outstanding common shares of Beattie Gold Mines Ltd. ("Beattie Gold") that were not already owned by First Mining. In addition, First Mining has also concurrently completed the acquisitions of 2699681 Canada Ltd. ("269 Canada") and 2588111 Manitoba Ltd. ("258 Manitoba") (together, the "Concurrent Transactions"). As a result, First Mining now owns 100% of the Duparquet Gold Project (the "Project") located in Quebec, Canada.
The total consideration of the Beattie Offer and the Concurrent Transactions was $8,727,177 in cash and the issuance of 69,127,820 common shares of First Mining for a total transaction value of approximately $24 million based on the twenty trading days volume weighted average price for First Mining's common shares as of the last trading day prior to the Company's initial announcement regarding these transactions on July 18, 2022.
"We are very pleased to announce the completion of this transformational acquisition of the Duparquet Gold Project. Since the announcement, First Mining has been very active at the project as demonstrated by the recent updated Duparquet mineral resource estimate," stated Dan Wilton, CEO of First Mining. "We look forward to working together with the local municipality and Indigenous communities, and the Province to advance this top tier mining project in Quebec."
First Mining, through the establishment of its new subsidiary entity in Quebec, "Mines D'Or Duparquet", will advance the Duparquet Project commencing with an environmental data collection exercise to update the environmental baseline data collected by Clifton Star in 2012 and 2013 to support the regulatory approval process for the Project. Work is also expected to commence on engineering trade-off studies and an updated economic study to build on the solid technical foundation established by the Project in the 2014 Pre-Feasibility Study.
First Mining has initiated discussions with the relevant Quebec ministries to address environmental and legacy infrastructure issues as part of the redevelopment of the property. In addition, First Mining intends to commence a robust regional exploration data compilation, integration and targeting exercise to develop a path supporting potential resource expansion, resource classification upgrading, and exploration discovery.
The company is committed to working in partnership with the municipality of Duparquet, citizens and Indigenous communities. Management will begin a meeting tour within the region to meet with citizens and local representatives to discuss next steps and studies for the Project, answer questions and listen to their feedback. First Mining wishes to establish a constructive and transparent dialogue towards relationship building and collaboration.
The Duparquet Gold Project is a multi-million ounce advanced exploration and mining development asset located in the Abitibi region of the province of Quebec, approximately 50 km north of the city of Rouyn-Noranda. The Duparquet deposit hosts an updated gold Resource of 3.4 Moz in the Measured and Indicated category, and an additional 1.6 Moz Au Inferred Resources (see news release from September 12, 2022). Existing infrastructure at the Project site includes paved provincial highways from Rouyn-Noranda to the south and LaSarre to the north and direct access to Quebec's hydroelectric power grid. In addition, the near-by communities of Duparquet, Ruoyn-Noranda and LaSarre have strong histories of sustainable mining practices.
Mr. Louis Martin P.Geo., (OGQ 0364), a consultant of First Mining, is a "Qualified Person" for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, and he has reviewed and approved the scientific and technical disclosure contained in this news release.
First Mining is a gold developer advancing a portfolio of gold projects in Canada, with our most advanced project being the Springpole Gold Project in northwestern Ontario, which is one of the largest undeveloped gold projects in Canada, and where we have commenced a Feasibility Study and permitting activities are on-going with a draft Environmental Impact Statement ("EIS") for the project published in June 2022. First Mining also owns the Cameron, Duparquet, Duquesne and Pitt gold projects, all advanced-stage gold projects in Ontario (in the case of Cameron) and Québec. Our portfolio of gold project interests also includes the Pickle Crow gold project (being advanced in partnership with Auteco Minerals Ltd.), the Hope Brook gold project (being advanced in partnership with Big Ridge Gold Corp.), an equity interest in Treasury Metals Inc., and a portfolio of 21 gold royalties.
First Mining was established in 2015 by Mr. Keith Neumeyer, founding President and CEO of First Majestic Silver Corp.
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Daniel W. Wilton
Chief Executive Officer and Director
This news release includes certain "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian and United States securities legislation including the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release. Forward-looking statements are frequently, but not always, identified by words such as "expects", "anticipates", "believes", "plans", "projects", "intends", "estimates", "envisages", "potential", "possible", "strategy", "goals", "opportunities", "objectives", or variations thereof or stating that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved, or the negative of any of these terms and similar expressions.
Forward-looking statements in this news release relate to future events or future performance and reflect current estimates, predictions, expectations or beliefs regarding future events. All forward-looking statements are based on First Mining's or its consultants' current beliefs as well as various assumptions made by them and information currently available to them. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Forward-looking statements reflect the beliefs, opinions and projections on the date the statements are made and are based upon a number of assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the respective parties, are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties and contingencies. Such factors include, without limitation the Company's business, operations and financial condition potentially being materially adversely affected by the outbreak of epidemics, pandemics or other health crises, such as COVID-19, and by reactions by government and private actors to such outbreaks; risks to employee health and safety as a result of the outbreak of epidemics, pandemics or other health crises, such as COVID-19, that may result in a slowdown or temporary suspension of operations at some or all of the Company's mineral properties as well as its head office; fluctuations in the spot and forward price of gold, silver, base metals or certain other commodities; fluctuations in the currency markets (such as the Canadian dollar versus the U.S. dollar); changes in national and local government, legislation, taxation, controls, regulations and political or economic developments; risks and hazards associated with the business of mineral exploration, development and mining (including environmental hazards, industrial accidents, unusual or unexpected formations, pressures, cave-ins and flooding); the presence of laws and regulations that may impose restrictions on mining; employee relations; relationships with and claims by local communities, indigenous populations and other stakeholders; availability and increasing costs associated with mining inputs and labour; the speculative nature of mineral exploration and development; title to properties.; and the additional risks described in the Company's Annual Information Form for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities under the Company's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com, and in the Company's Annual Report on Form 40-F filed with the SEC on EDGAR.
First Mining cautions that the foregoing list of factors that may affect future results is not exhaustive. When relying on our forward-looking statements to make decisions with respect to First Mining, investors and others should carefully consider the foregoing factors and other uncertainties and potential events. First Mining does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time by the Company or on our behalf, except as required by law.
The Company is a "foreign private issuer" as defined in Rule 3b-4 under the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and is eligible to rely upon the Canada-U.S. Multi-Jurisdictional Disclosure System, and is therefore permitted to prepare the technical information contained herein in accordance with the requirements of the securities laws in effect in Canada, which differ from the requirements of the securities laws currently in effect in the United States. Accordingly, information concerning mineral deposits set forth herein may not be comparable with information made public by companies that report in accordance with U.S. standards.
Technical disclosure contained in this news release has not been prepared in accordance with the requirements of United States securities laws and uses terms that comply with reporting standards in Canada with certain estimates prepared in accordance with NI 43-101.
NI 43-101 is a rule developed by the Canadian Securities Administrators that establishes standards for all public disclosure an issuer makes of scientific and technical information concerning the issuer's material mineral projects.
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In the year before the Intel megaproject, JobsOhio attracts 29,104 new jobs and $6.9 billion in capital investment
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, JobsOhio, the state's private nonprofit economic development corporation, released its 2021 Annual Report and 2022 Strategic Plan, which showed 2021 to be a landmark year with more than 29,104 new jobs created and over $6.9 billion in capital investment in Ohio. While the Intel megaproject is not included as part of last year's record performance, JobsOhio was able to break records for commitments of new jobs, new jobs payroll, retained jobs, and new projects.
In 2021, JobsOhio and its partners achieved:
- 414 total projects
- 29,104 new jobs
- $1.6 billion new jobs payroll
- 75,416 jobs retained
- $4.5 billion retained jobs payroll
- $6.9 billion in capital investment
JobsOhio is seeking to capitalize on the ongoing trend of attracting successful businesses from coasts in 2022 after nearly 40 new companies relocated from the East and West Coasts to Ohio last year.
"We remained steadfast in our commitment to move at the speed of business to attract new jobs for Ohioans, marking a banner year for JobsOhio and tracking strong momentum going forward," said JobsOhio President and CEO J.P. Nauseef. "Intel has caught the attention of business leaders who didn't consider choosing Ohio before this year, and we're proving is a major competitor for attracting new business tech, advanced manufacturing, and other rapidly growing sectors that are looking to tap into our growing talent pool and strong business climate."
In 2021, JobsOhio continued to focus on ten target industries with high productivity, wages, and economic impact. These industries are tracked because they are "traded sectors," which means the jobs could be located anywhere and are not tied to providing local services. After the challenges presented by COVID-19, JobsOhio's targeted sectors remained resilient, with aggregate employment fully recovered to pre-pandemic levels. The ten sectors comprised 36% of Ohio's gross state product, 28% of its payroll, and 21% of its jobs. Aggregate employment in JobsOhio's ten sectors was fully recovered to pre-pandemic levels.
Founded 11 years ago, JobsOhio is a first-of-its-kind private economic development corporation that invests in Ohio's future. In 2021, JobsOhio took a strategic approach to focus on how the state can best capitalize on its proximity, workforce, infrastructure, and growth opportunities. These strategic initiatives included:
- Talent: Home to a labor force of almost 5.7 million people and hundreds of higher education institutions, Ohio continues to fuel one of its greatest assets for business: a robust, skilled, and hardworking workforce.
- Sites: SiteOhio gives companies access to an inventory of shovel-ready sites, while the Revitalization Program provides financial assistance to companies that want to redevelop abandoned, neglected, or contaminated properties
- Innovation: Together with the state of Ohio and our healthcare and university partners, JobsOhio has launched one of the nation's most ambitious and comprehensive economic development initiatives. The Innovation Strategy creates Innovation Districts, funds grants for new R&D centers, and provides businesses with essential growth capital
- Inclusion: As part of the JobsOhio 5-Year Strategic Plan, our inclusion work encompasses intersecting dimensions of underrepresented populations and geographies. As a result, JobsOhio is investing $14.4 million annually across three inclusion-focused programs. By the end of 2021, we awarded grants to 200 companies that, in turn, have stimulated over $100 million in total investments.
About JobsOhio:
JobsOhio is a private nonprofit economic development corporation designed to drive job creation and new capital investment in Ohio through business attraction, retention, and expansion. The organization also works to seed talent production in its targeted industries and to attract talent to Ohio through Find Your Ohio. JobsOhio works with six regional partners across Ohio: Dayton Development Coalition, Ohio Southeast Economic Development, One Columbus, REDI Cincinnati, Regional Growth Partnership, and Team NEO. Learn more at www.jobsohio.com. Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
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NEW YORK, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Amazon.com, Inc. ("Amazon" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: AMZN) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Amazon investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between February 1, 2019 and April 5, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
AMZN investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) Amazon engaged in anticompetitive conduct in its private-label business practices, including giving Amazon products preference over those of its competitors and using third-party sellers' non-public data to compete with them; (ii) the foregoing exposed Amazon to a heightened risk of regulatory scrutiny and/or enforcement actions; (iii) Amazon's revenues derived from its private-label business were in part the product of impermissible conduct and thus unsustainable; and (iv) as a result, the defendants' public statements throughout the class period were materially false and/or misleading.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Amazon during the relevant time frame, you have until July 5, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
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